As a Southerner I would have to say that one of the main importances of the War is that Southerners have a sense of defeat which none of the rest of the country has.

A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.

When you grow up in a totally segregated society, where everybody around you believes that segregation is proper, you have a hard time. You can't believe how much it's a part of your thinking.

If you want to study writing, read Dickens

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Most of my inspiration, if that's the word, came from books themselves.

Before the war it was always the United States *are*, after the war it was the United States is... it made us an is.