Everything seems an echo of something else.

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

Reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events.

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

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

The end of man is knowledge, but there is one thing he can't know. He can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him. He will be killed, all right, but he can't know whether he is killed because of the knowledge which he has got or because of the knowledge which he hasn't got and which if he had it, would save him.

[A]nd soon now we shall go out of the house and go into the convulsion of the world, out of history into history and the awful responsibility of Time.