I listen to the voices.

As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people. But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.

Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.

...thinking as he had thought before and would think again and as every other man has thought: how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.

That's sad too, people cannot do anything that dreadful they cannot do anything very dreadful at all they cannot even remember tomorrow what seemed dreadful today

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

In every writer there is a certain amount of the scavenger.