Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.

If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

You lose your manners when you're poor.

Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in 19th-century France and England, or 20th-century Russia and America.

No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.

Haven't you lived in the South long enough to know that nothing is ever anybody's fault?

Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.