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

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.

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.

No man should have proprietary rights over land who does not use that land wisely and lovingly.

Without pain, how would we know what true joy feels like?

You never require a teacher to lead you into the wrong path, but you do require a kindly word to conduct you aright.

Any artist will tell you he's really only interested in the stuff he's doing now. He will, always. It's true, and it should be like that.

Blessed the one who has become a good spiritual net and caught many for the good Lord, such a one will greatly praised by the Lord.

Grammar has qualities, shapes and forms.

Abortion is 'the great modern sin.

Loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude.

I should be concentrating on writing pages.

At the end of the day, a "jump scare" scares the audience for the moment. Slow burn horror ideas scare people forever.

I sometimes call Donald Trump the placebo president. He will talk a big game, but for domestic policy I think change remarkably little.