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

I longed to know the world's name.

Process as process is neither morally good nor morally bad. We may judge results but not process. The morally bad agent may perform the deed which is good. The morally good agent may perform the deed which is bad. Maybe a man has to sell his soul to get the power to do good.

If you look at a thing, the very fact of your looking changes it...if you think about yourself, that very fact changes you.

The best luck always happens to people who don't need it.

If something takes too long, something happens to you. You become all and only the thing you want and nothing else, for you have paid too much for it, too much in wanting and too much in waiting and too much in getting.

When you get born your father and mother lost something out of themselves, and they are going to bust a ham trying to get it back, and you are it. They know they can't get it all back but they will get as big a chunk out of you as they can.