Maybe solitude is best had in the midst of multitudes.

There’s nothing better than an elegant cry of despair.

For me, environment is all. Place — as I was saying about my students — is absolutely essential.

Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.

A lot of the kinship that people notice is not coincidental. I was very impressionable and trying to find my role models when I was twelve or thirteen.

I think you have to relax about aging. What else can you do?

We have to know before we can act.

Let us receive nothing, believe nothing, follow nothing which is not in the Bible, nor can be proved by the Bible.

The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is it still southern?

There's something about the rhythms of language that correspond to the rhythms of our own bodies.

But once you get down to reality, there's no one to play her and there's no movie. It would be ridiculous.

Micro managing anything is not a great role for government.

Every time an adult is going to write something for a teenager and you don't have, physically, a person who is that, you are always going to be a little off.