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

In every writer there is a certain amount of the scavenger.

You must always know the past, for there is no real Was, there is only Is.

You don't dare think whole even to yourself the entirety of a dear hope or wish let alone a desperate one else you yourself have doomed it.

Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday's omissions and regrets.

The poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past. The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.

Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories. The past is never dead, it is not even past.