It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret. Father said that. That Christ was not crucified: he was worn away by a minute clicking of little wheels. That had no sister.

A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune

I'd have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.

Women do have an affinity for evil, for believing that no woman is to be trusted, but that some men are too innocent to protect themselves.

Caddy got the box and set it on the floor and opened it. It was full of stars. When I was still, they were still. When I moved, they glinted and sparkled. I hushed.

If all the businesses in town are run like country businesses, You are going to have a country town

Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar...

Amid the pointing and the horror, the clean flame.

It's not when you realise that nothing can help you - religion, pride, anything - it's when you realise that you don't need any aid.

If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children's books suddenly turn up very high on the list.

The act of memory is an act of ghostwriting.

Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.

I get up every day, do the best that I can do, and go home and have a good time.

If you want things to be right, you have to do them yourself

Every living thing is both a whole system in and of itself as well as an essential part of other systems.

I dress normal because I want people to treat me regular. And their brains explode. It's really fun.

We need not hesitate to admit that the Sun is richly stored with inhabitants.