I want you to hear a new version of Dueling Banjos. Anyone else is welcome.

I don’t believe that a reviewer or a critic can really criticize well unless he can praise well.

To have guilt you've got to earn guilt, but sometimes when you earn it, you don't feel the guilt you ought to have. And that's what The Firebombing is about.

What a view, i said again. The river was blank and mindless with beauty. It was the most glorious thing I have ever seen. But it was not seeing, really. For once it was not just seeing. It was beholding. I beheld the river in its icy pit of brightness, in its far-below sound and indifference, in its large coil and tiny points and flashes of the moon, in its long sinuous form, in its uncomprehending consequence.

Find out what you do best, and then don't do it.

The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity.

The women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and grotesquerie.