Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.

Marriage is long enough to have plenty of room for time behind it.

The past is never dead. It's not even past.

I suppose that people, using themselves and each other so much by words, are at least consistent in attributing wisdom to a still tongue.

To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.

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

He made the earth first and peopled it with dumb creatures, and then He created man to be His overseer on the earth and to hold suzerainty over the earth and the animals on it in His name, not to hold for himself and his descendants inviolable title forever, generation after generation, to the oblongs and squares of the earth, but to hold the earth mutual and intact in the communal anonymity of brotherhood, and all the fee He asked was pity and humility and sufferance and endurance and the sweat of has face for bread.