Life is strong stuff, some of us can bear more of it than others.

Fear is the most easily taught of all lessons, and the fight against terror, real or imagined, is perhaps the history of man's mind.

the truth is artistically fallacious.

Information can be passed from one to another, like a silver dollar. There's absolutely no wisdom except what you learn for yourself.

Garlic, like perfume, must be used with discretion and on the proper occasions.

Readers themselves, I think, contribute to a book. They add their own imaginations, and it is as though the writer only gave them something to work on, and they did the rest.

Somewhere beyond the sink-hole, past the magnolia, under the live oaks, a boy and a yearling ran side by side, and were gone forever.