I do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite.

you can go to the Devil and not at your leisure. You can go now, for all I care.' 'My pet, I've been to the Devil and he's a very dull fellow. I won't go there again, not even for you.

God help the man who ever really loves you.

The whole world can't lick us but we can lick ourselves by longing too hard for things we haven't got any more - and by remembering too much.

Brilliance is one part talent, two parts wisdom and three parts passion.

what will the South be like without all our fine boys? What would the South have been if they had lived?

Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for 'Tis the only thing in this world that lasts, 'Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for - worth dying for.