it is my conviction that the personality of the writer has nothing to do with the literate product of his mind. And publicity in this case embarrasses me because I am acutely conscious of how far short the book falls of the artistry I am struggling to achieve. It's like being caught half-dressed.

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.

the inferred is always more effective than the obvious.

I do not understand how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to.

Lives are only one with living. How dare we, in our egos, claim catastrophe in the rise and fall of the individual entity? There is only Life, and we are beads strung on its strong and endless thread.

Madness is only a variety of mental nonconformity and we are all individualists here.