[T]he army of wrongness rampant in the world might as well march over me.
You don't understand. You've never hated anybody. No, I never have. We're allotted just so much time on earth, and I wouldn't want the Lord to see me wasting mine in any such manner.
Good writing is rewriting.
I'll pay you a million dollars if you tell your life story for true.
A boy has to peddle his book.
If you sweep a house, and tend its fires and fill its stove, and there is love in you all the years you are doing this, then you and that house are married, that house is yours.