Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.

I never promise a woman anything nor let her know what I'm going to give her. That's the only way to manage them. Always keep them guessing. If you cant think of any other way to surprise them, give them a bust in the jaw.

It's because I'm alone.. If I could just feel it, it would be different, because I would not be alone. But if I were not alone, everybody would know it. And he could do so much for me, and then I would not be alone. Then I could be all right alone.

Caddy smelled like trees.

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.

A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.