I had always wondered what Reverend Lovoy meant when he talked about "grace." I understood it now. It was being able to give up something that it broke your heart to lose, and be happy about it.

Maybe crazy is what they call anybody who's got magic in them after they're no longer a child.

I don't believe there can be any bad taste in creating a scene, only badwriting in handling it.

Even the most worthless thing in the world can be beautiful, it just takes the right touch

Yes, there was music after all. The sound of the swamp rose up to him. The sound of frogs and crickets, of birds and 'gators, of life in every puddle and pond and knothole and leaf. I Travel By Night

Bad people? What kind of bad people? Members of the Church of Satan? Insurance salesmen? People who don’t speak English?

Bore: a person who talks when you wish him to listen.

In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations.

As goes love so goes life.

The freedom to convert is fundamental to freedom of religion.

What is last year's snow to me, Last year's anything? The tree Budding yearly must forget How its past arose or set

Get five or six of your smartest friends in a room and ask them to rate your idea.

Communism has defeated itself everywhere except... in American colleges.

Nobody wants a judge to be subject to the political whim of the moment.

The only intercourse possible between the knight and the dragon is battle.