Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.
Love in the young requires as little of hope as of desire to feed upon.
. . . how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.
All dogs seem to be great linguists, according to their owners. They always understand every word that's said to them.
I have always been quite careful when I have been approached to do a television project to have the option of writing the accompanying book.
To the trolls on the internet, I want to say: Get your head out of the computer. Go outside and walk around. Look at the people walking next to you. Look at your friends' friends and who they're interacting with. And just understand this is the world we live in. It's okay to like it.
If you hang in there long enough, you will eventually reach your goal.