Don Quixote — I read that every year, as some do the Bible.

She clung to that which had robbed her, as people do.

The writer in America isn't part of the culture of this country. He's like a fine dog. People like him around, but he's of no use.

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.

It always takes a man that never made much at any thing to tell you how to run your business, though. Like these college professors without a whole pair of socks to his name, telling you how to make a million in ten years, and a woman that couldn't even get a husband can always tell you how to raise a family.

The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.

You can't. You just have to.