Decision by democratic majority vote is a fine form of government, but it's a stinking way to create.

The judgment of music, like the inspiration for it, must come slow and measured, if it comes with truth.

Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.

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

The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men.

It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.

It was an unspoken pleasure, that having come together so many years, ruined so much and repaired a little, we had endured.