The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about 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.

Riches is nothing in the face of the Lord, for He can see into the heart.

I knew that nobody but a luckless man could ever need a doctor in the face of a cyclone.

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was - only is.

The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.