The past is always a rebuke to the present.

I think the greatest curse of American society has been the idea of an easy millennialism -- that some new drug, or the next election or the latest in social engineering will solve everything.

Dying--shucks! If you kin handle the living, what's to be afraid of the dying?

There was nothing particularly wrong with them; they were just the ordinary garden variety of human garbage.

To be an American is not...a matter of blood; it is a matter of an idea--and history is the image of that idea.

For whatever you live is life.

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