The Southerners are the only cooks in the United States. The real difference between the South and the North is that one enjoys itself getting dyspepsia and the other does not.

The very commonplaces of life are components of its eternal mystery.

The only real rival of love is Art, for that in itself is a deep personal passion, its function an act of creation, fed by some mysterious perversion of sex, and demanding all the imagination's activities.

It took me years to learn that character is fate and that no one can be made over.

It is a pretty trick of authors to make nature ever in sympathy with man, but as a matter of fact she seldom is.

The minority of one generation is usually the majority of the next.

there is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything.