Now...in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, ipods and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.

...in other words, all I want to be is the Jane Austen of south Alabama Interview - March 1964

As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, he is trash.

I do much of my creative thinking while golfing. If people know you're working at home they think nothing of walking in for a cup of coffee, but wouldn't dream of interrupting on the golf course.

Dill if you don't hush I'll knock you bowlegged.

You see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that's the way I want to live.

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.