Writing is agony for me. I work at it eight hours every day, hoping to get six pages, but I am satisfied with three.

A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one.

When a wave of love takes over a human being... such an exaltation takes him that he knows he has put his finger on the pulse of the great secret and the great answer.

We cannot live without the Earth or apart from it, and something is shrivelled in a man's heart when he turns away from it and concerns himself only with the affairs of men

I do not understand how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to.

A woman never forgets the men she could have had; a man, the women he couldn't

It seems to me that the earth may be borrowed but not bought. It may be used but not owned. We are tenants, not possessors, lovers and not masters.

Fear is the most easily taught of all lessons, and the fight against terror, real or imagined, is perhaps the history of man's mind.

Cross Creek belongs to the wind and the rain, to the sun and the seasons, to the cosmic secrecy of seed, and beyond all, to time.

Ants in the house seem to be, not intruders, but the owners.

Readers themselves, I think, contribute to a book. They add their own imaginations, and it is as though the writer only gave them something to work on, and they did the rest.

I don't blame anyone for my failures i blame myself for not seeing what's really ahead of me...

I'm inspired by many of my friends, colleagues, and the extraordinary people I've been fortunate enough to meet along the way.

Since I got to the big leagues, there's been a whole lot of Direct-TV sold in Jamestown. People like to keep up with the local boy.

When a good thing goes bad its not the end of the world. Its just the end of a world, that you had with one girl.

My past is my wisdom to use today. . . my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.

Silly boys. Did you think we were making a silent movie?

In 1947 I married Rowena Palmer, and we have two daughters, Alison and Claire, and a son, John.

Everything goes wrong for a government which is going wrong

What is important is that one utilizes one's intellect and not to be 100 percent sure about one's convictions. One should always leave room for doubt.

Denmark is a country built on a commercial fleet. That's basically what we have been doing. We're just a small country of islands, and every family has a sailor.