You kin tame a bear. You kin tame a wild-cat and you kin tame a panther. ... You kin tame arything, son, excusin' the human tongue.

Living was no longer the grief behind him, but the anxiety ahead.

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

Here in Florida the seasons move in and out like nuns in soft clothing, making no rustle in their passing.

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.

You kin tame a bear. You kin tame a wild-cat and you kin tame a panther. ... You kin tame arything, son, excusin' the human tongue.

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.