Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.

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

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.

I imagine as long as people will continue to read novels, people will continue to write them, or vice versa; unless of course the pictorial magazines and comic strips finally atrophy man's capacity to read, and literature really is on its way back to the picture writing in the Neanderthal cave.

Women do have an affinity for evil, for believing that no woman is to be trusted, but that some men are too innocent to protect themselves.

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

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