Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of another... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.

Southern lawyers don't read novels much.

So it took an eight-year-old child to bring 'em to their senses.... That proves something - that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human. Hmp, maybe we need a police force of children.

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Cecil Jacobs is a big wet hen!

Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.

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