I learned little save that most of the deeds, good and bad both, incurring opprobrium or plaudits or reward either, within the scope of man's abilities, had already been performed and were to be learned about only from books.

The clock tick-tocked, solemn and profound. It might have been the dry pulse of the decaying house itself, after a while it whirred and cleared its throat and struck six times.

That which is destroying the Church is not the outward groping of those within it nor the inward groping of those without, but the professionals who control it and who have removed the bells from its steeples.

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.

The writer doesn't need economic freedom. All he needs is a pencil and some paper.

I do not rewrite unless I am absolutely sure that I can express the material better if I do rewrite it.

Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain't got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.