Ever since then I have believed that God is not only a gentleman and a sport; he is a Kentuckian too.

I do not rewrite unless I am absolutely sure that I can express the material better if I do rewrite it.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.

They will endure. They are better than we are. Stronger than we are. Their vices are vices aped from white men or that white men and bondage have taught them: improvidence and intemperance and evasion-not laziness: evasion: of what white men had set them to, not for their aggrandizement or even comfort but his own.

The whiskey died away in time and was renewed and died again, but the street ran on. From that night the thousand streets ran as one street, with imperceptible corners and changes of scene.

A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.

I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o'clock every day.