More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past.

Goodness . . . You got to make it out of badness . . . Because there isn't anything else to make it out of.

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

A young man's ambition - to get along in the world and make a place for himself - half your life goes that way, till you're 45 or 50. Then, if you're lucky, you make terms with life, you get released.

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

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

A symbol serves to combine heart and intellect.