It seems to me that the earth may be borrowed but not bought. It may be used but not owned. We are tenants, not possessors, lovers and not masters.

Now he understood. This was death. Death was a silence that gave back no answer.

But to make the intangible tangible, to pick the emotion out of the air and make it true for others, is both the blessing and the curse of the writer, for the thing between book covers is never as beautiful as the thing he imagined.

The best fish in the world are of course those one catches oneself.

no case of libel by a negro against a white would even reach a southern court.

A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one.

You can't change a man, no-ways. By the time his mummy turns him loose and he takes up with some innocent woman and marries her, he's what he is.