The nervous system of any age or nation is its creative workers, its artists. And if that nervous system is profoundly disturbed by its environment, the work it produces will inescapably reflect the disturbances, sometimes obliquely and sometimes with violent directness.

Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. --Blanche Dubois

All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

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.

For nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles, Laura -- and so goodbye. . . .

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.