A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.

Before the war it was always the United States *are*, after the war it was the United States is... it made us an is.

The Civil War defined us as what we are and it opened us to being what we became, good and bad things... It was the crossroads of our being, and it was a hell of a crossroads.

If you want to study writing, read Dickens. That's how to study writing, or Faulkner, or D.H. Lawrence, or John Keats. They can teach you everything you need to know about writing.

People make a grievous error thinking that a list of facts is the truth. Facts are just the bare bones out of which truth is made.

When you grow up in a totally segregated society, where everybody around you believes that segregation is proper, you have a hard time. You can't believe how much it's a part of your thinking.

As a Southerner I would have to say that one of the main importances of the War is that Southerners have a sense of defeat which none of the rest of the country has.

I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value, but to have someone else to point out your mistakes is a shortcut of the process.

I abhor the idea of a perfect world. It would bore me to tears.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

North was only a direction indicated by a compass--if a man had one, that is, for otherwise there was no north or south or east or west; there was only the brooding desolation.

The Canis Lupus, both wolf and man, were meant to be a family with one another. We gain strength through our bond with each other.

God is light.God is knowledge.

Life is a simple straight line between birth and death. The problem is you only realize it at the end of the line.

Nobody wants to know how you feel, yet, they want you to do what they feel.

Every single cell in the human body replaces itself over a period of seven years. That means there's not even the smallest part of you now that was part of you seven years ago.

He says a thousand pleasant things - But never says "Adieu"

Live your life... as though everything is a miracle.

When it was over, it was not really over, and that was the trouble.

In a relationship the way to overcome problems, is to focus our attention on higher principles that can help us transcend them.

Some girls talk to the boys in the chat room, my girls talk to the boys in the backroom.