One always likes one's latest book best. That's a natural feeling.

Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.

Never love a wild thing...If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky.

But it's Sunday, Mr. Bell. Clocks are slow on Sundays.

I'm not a philosopher.

Shoot, boy, the country's just fulla folks what knows everything, and don't understand nothing, just fullofem.

I've never had an affair with somebody who wasn't at the same time a very good friend of mine, if you see what I mean.