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

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

That summer we had been absolutely alone, together, even when people were around, the only inhabitants of the kind of floating island or magic carpet which being in love is.

History is all explained by geography.

You don’t choose a story, it chooses you.

Tell me a story of deep delight.

How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.