Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it

When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.

I will rejoice the day when they say: This is right whether we all rot on top of each other or not, dear children, as we certainly may. Either practice restraint or be prepared for crowding.

There's a certain grain of stupidity that the writer of fiction can hardly do without, and this is the quality of having to stare, of not getting the point at once. The longer you look at one object, the more of the world you see in it; and it's well to remember that the serious fiction writer always writes about the whole world.

It is a sign of maturity... to find explanations in charity.

All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.

I am interested in making up a good case for distortion, as I am coming to believe it is the only way to make people see.