Let the past abolish the past when -- and if -- it can substitute something better.

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.

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

No man can write who is not first a humanitarian

Only Southerners have taken horsewhips and pistols to editors about the treatment or maltreatment of their manuscript. This--the actual pistols--was in the old days$$$ of course$$$ we no longer succumb to the impulse. But it is still there$$$ within us.

It takes an awful lot of character to quit anything when you are losing$$$

He said that in a way being loved is like being told you never have to die.

The only place where you can be a dictator and still be loved is on the movie set.

There is something about jumping a horse over a fence$$$ something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk$$$ the gamble. In any event it's a thing I need.

Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred with out a head.