Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you

Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar.

In writing, you must kill all your darlings.

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.

So vast, so limitless in capacity is man's imagination to disperse and burn away the rubble-dross of fact and probability, leaving only truth and dream.

Caddy got the box and set it on the floor and opened it. It was full of stars. When I was still, they were still. When I moved, they glinted and sparkled. I hushed.

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.