What else is there to do in college except drink beer or slit one's wrists?

I want to moan and writhe with you and I want to go up to you and kiss your mouth and pull you to me and say "I love you I love you I love you" while stripping. I want you so bad it stings.

Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

You aren't really writing about what you did; you're writing about how you feel.

That sinuous southern life, that oblique and slow and complicated old beauty, that warm thick air and blood warm sea, that place of mists and languor and fragrant richness.

If the price of peace were a lowering of your consciousness, and the price of stillness a lack of vitality and alertness, then they would not be worth having.

The thing that's important for me is to remember what's the most important thing.

The coward reckons himself cautious, the miser frugal.

Everything I see is something I haven't memorized.

Our actions are neither so good nor so evil as our impulses.

We think highly of men when we do not know the extent of their capabilities, for we always suppose that more exists when we only see half.

There are only two types of speakers in the world. 1. The nervous and 2. Liars.