Procrustes was an editor.

It is the distance between us that creates language.

I have no history but the length of my bones.

Never believe what you cannot doubt.

Death is the only mystery we all solve.

More dreams are destroyed in bed than are ever found there.

It requires less skill to love than to be loved.

Those who have the habit of revelation lose the habit of thought.

A vice is merely a pleasure to which somebody has objected.

Headlines pass; breadlines continue.

Men who like women rarely fall in love.

They kept me in a cage for too long because now every room I am standing in is just another cell.

It takes billions of years to create a human being. And it takes only a few seconds to die.

I am a negative person by nature, and I typically shy away from anything that requires me to be having visible fun.

It's hard to say exactly what it is about face-to-face contact that makes deals happen, but whatever it is, it hasn't yet been duplicated by technology.

Speed is the essence of war.

If God is your world, what have you to fear?

Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That's just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.

What is dignity without honesty?

Church is not an organization you join; it is a family where you belong, a home where you are loved and a hospital where you find healing.

I can think of no one more qualified to write about the modern South than Curtis Wilkie