It's very important to be just to other people. It takes years and years of living to learn that injustice against oneself is always unimportant.

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

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

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.

I had done battle with a great fear and the victory was mine.

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

Words began fights and words ended them.