The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.

Dirt's a funny thing,' the Boss said. 'Come to think of it, there ain't a thing but dirt on this green God's globe except what's under water, and that's dirt too. It's dirt makes the grass grow. A diamond ain't a thing in the world but a piece of dirt that got awful hot. And God-a-Mighty picked up a handful of dirt and blew on it and made you and me and George Washington and mankind blessed in faculty and apprehension. It all depends on what you do with the dirt. That right?

Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of amusement in the South. They're inexpensive and easy to procure.

If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other.

For whatever you live is life.

The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful.

Nobody had ever told me that anything could be like this.