There ain't anything worth doing a man can do and keep his dignity. Can you figure out a single thing you really please-God like to do you can do and keep your dignity? The human frame just ain't built that way.

But for the present I would lie there and know I didn't have to get up, and feel the holy emptiness and blessed fatigue of a saint after the dark night of the soul. For God and Nothing have a lot in common. You look either one of Them straight in the eye for a second and the immediate effect on the human constitution is the same.

Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something (All The King's Men)

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

I reckon I am a smart aleck, but it is just a way to pass the time.

Your business as a writer is not to illustrate virtue but to show how a fellow may move toward it or away from it.

The poem is not a thing we see; it is, rather, a light by which we may see.