We will not think noble because we are not noble. We will not live in beautiful harmony because there is no such thing in this world, nor should there be. We promise only to do our best and to live out our lives. Dear God, that's all we can promise in truth.

There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat.

One sits uncomfortably on a too comfortable cushion.

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

Decisions, particularly important ones, have always made me sleepy, perhaps because I know that I will have to make them by instinct, and thinking things out is only what other people tell me I should do.

Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.

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