The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

When she told a story, she rolled her eyes and waved her head and was very dramatic.

The artist uses his reason to discover an answering reason in everything he sees.

I am very handy with my advice and then when anybody appears to be following it, I get frantic.

She was a talker, wasn't she?" Bobby Lee said, sliding down the ditch with a yodel. "She would of been a good woman," The Misfit said, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life." "Some fun!" Bobby Lee said. "Shut up, Bobby Lee," The Misfit said. "It's no real pleasure in life.

... the novelist is bound by the reasonable possibilities, not the probabilities, of his culture.

The fact is that anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. If you can't make something out of a little experience, you probably won't be able to make it out of a lot.