"The more you try to understand the truth, the less you know."

"The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."

Now Bubba told me everything he knew about shrimping, but you know what I found out? Shrimping is tough. I only caught five.

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.