Sickness is a place, ... and it's always a place where there's no company, where nobody can follow.

My own approach to literary problems is very like the one Dr. Johnson's blind housekeeper used when she poured tea-she put her finger inside the cup.

You shall know the truth, and it will make you odd.

The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.

Being a Georgia author is a rather specious dignity, on the same order as, for the pig, being a Talmadge ham.

I distrust pious phrases, especially when they issue from my mouth. I try militantly never to be affected by the pious language of the faithful but it is always coming out when you least expect it. In contrast to the pious language of the faithful, the liturgy is beautifully flat.

A working knowledge of the devil can be very well had from resisting him.