Longevity Conquers Scandal Every Time.

People Want To Know Why The South Is So Interested In The Civil War. I Had Maybe, It's A Rough Guess, About Fifty Fistfights In My Life. Out Of Those Fifty Fistfights, The Ones That I Had The Most Vivid Memory Of Were The Ones I Lost. I Think That's One Reason Why The South Remembers The War More Than The North Does.

A University Is Just A Group Of Buildings Gathered Around A Library.

I Abhor The Idea Of A Perfect World. It Would Bore Me To Tears.

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.

Writing Is Very Hard Work And Knowing What You're Doing The Whole Time.