Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

Ignorance is not not knowin' - Ignorance is knowin' what ain't so.

In the South the war is what A.D. is elsewhere; they date from it.

Well, my book is written-let it go. But if it were only to write over again there wouldn't be so many things left out. They burn in me; and they keep multiplying; but now they can't ever be said. And besides, they would require a library-and a pen warmed up in hell.

He charged nothing for his preaching and it was worth it too.

Every time I read a Jane Austen novel, I feel like a bartender at the gates of heaven.

As for the dinosaur - But Noah's conscience was easy; it was not named in his cargo list and he and the boys were not aware that there was such a creature. He said he could not blame himself for not knowing about the dinosaur, because it was an American animal and America had not then been discovered.