Lucky is the man who does not secretly believe that every possibility is open to him.

Why has the South produced so many good writers? Because we got beat.

Suppose you ask God for a miracle and God says yes, very well. How do you live the rest of your life?

There is no pain on this earth like seeing the same woman look at another man the way she once looked at you.

Being uneducated is no guarantee against being obnoxious.

This Midwestern sky is the nakedest loneliest sky in America. To escape it, people live inside and underground.

One of the peculiar ironies of being a human self in the Cosmos: A stranger approaching you in the street will in a second's glance see you whole, size you up, place you in a way in which you cannot and never will, even though you have spent a lifetime with yourself, live in the Century of the Self, and therefore ought to know yourself best of all.