I've always said that next to Imperial China, the South is the best place in the world to be an old lady.

Southerners have a genius for psychological alchemy...If something intolerable simply cannot be changed, driven away or shot they will not only tolerate it but take pride in it as well.

Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.

Gradually my whole concept of time changed until I thought of a month as having twenty-five days of humanness and five others when I might just as well have been an animal in a steel trap.

I've always said that next to Imperial China, the South is the best place in the world to be an old lady.

If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope.

American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them.