“Why do anything unless it is going to be great?”
“I don't know why I go to school unless for kicks, oh well might as well do dissect a frog.”
“I would never, never do anything unless I believed in it.”
“Anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic.”
“Favoring 'resolution' the way we do, it is hard for us men to write great love stories. Why?, because we want to tell too much. We aren’t satisfied unless at the end of the story the characters are lying there, panting.”
“My parents are great listenersWhich is why I never tell them anything”