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

Styles in wit change so.

You can't recover from what you do not understand.

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

Childhood is less clear to me than to many people: when it ended I turned my face away from it for no reason that I know about, certainly without the usual reason of unhappy memories. For many years that worried me, but then I discovered that the tales of former children are seldom to be trusted. Some people supply too many past victories or pleasures with which to comfort themselves, and other people cling to pains, real and imagined, to excuse what they have become.

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

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.