You'll be surprised how infinitely merciful they [these tablets] are. The prescription number is 96814. I think of it as the telephone number of God!

Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. --Blanche Dubois

Perhaps the most vivid recollection of my youth is that of the local wheelmen, led by my father, stopping at our home to eat pone, sip mint juleps, and flog the field hands. This more than anything cultivated my life-long aversion to bicycles.

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.

I don't think there is such a thing as a precise sexual orientation. I think we're all ambiguous sexually.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.