There warn't anybody at the church, except maybe a hog or two, for there warn't any lock on the door, and hogs likes a puncheon floor in summer-time because it's cool. If you notice, most folks don't go to church only when they've got to; but a hog is different.

Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.

To go abroad has something of the same sense that death brings. I am no longer of ye-what ye say of me is now of no consequence.

The difference between fiction and nonfiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.

After my marriage she edited everything I wrote. And what is more, she not only edited my works, she edited me.

It is not best to use our morals weekdays, it gets them out of repair for Sunday.

Just because you’re taught that something’s right and everyone believes it’s right, it don’t make it right.