We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.

It seems impossible for a man to learn the value of money without first having to learn to waste it.

Tell about the South. What's it like there. What do they do there. Why do they live there. Why do they live at all.

Life was created in the valleys. It blew up onto the hills on the old terrors, the old lusts, the old despairs. That's why you must walk up the hills so you can ride down.

I don't care much for facts, am not much interested in them, you can't stand a fact up, you've got to prop it up, and when you move to one side a little and look at it from that angle, it's not thick enough to cast a shadow in that direction.

Surely there is something in madness, even the demoniac, which Satan flees, aghast at his own handiwork, and which God looks on in pity.

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