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

And when I think about that, I think that if nothing but being married will help a man, he's durn nigh hopeless.

Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest

Memory believes before knowing remembers. [Light in August]

It's not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it's when you realize that you don't need any aid.

I imagine as long as people will continue to read novels, people will continue to write them, or vice versa; unless of course the pictorial magazines and comic strips finally atrophy man's capacity to read, and literature really is on its way back to the picture writing in the Neanderthal cave.

It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That's how the world is going to end.