Carson McCullers

"We are the sum of all that we have experienced."

"Growth requires perseverance, and perseverance requires faith."

"To be in love is to be forever altered."

"She could feel how the heart of the man who stood beside her was knocking with the same wild rhythm as her own."

"People are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them."

"The greatest revolution is the revelation of truth."

"Without music life would be a blank to me."

"There is often in people in whom 'the land' is very strong, a almost desperate quality."

"We in America are troubled by youth but we got to have it."

"The writer must always have a curious mind."

"You think because you understand one you understand two, because you understand two you understand four. But you must also understand three."

"All sensitive people are capable of greatness."

"Southerners have a secret hankering for death."

"Every man is to himself quite rational; the great difficulty is to understand him."

"The struggle for existence is the beginning of wisdom."

"Loneliness is as much a refusal as it is a deprivation."

"We are bound together by the simplest of threads."

"The individual human spirit can create in the face of anything."

"What does it mean to be a writer? It means asking oneself questions."

"The climate of our civilization is not a matter of fog or temperature, but of attitudes."

"To be young is to be sad, to be sad is to be high."

"Music is the universal language of mankind."

"The law of nature is that time is a healer of all wounds."

"A writer who doesn't exist in his writing is incomplete."

"The journey inward is the most important journey we take."

"Sometimes a great sorrow is like a sudden depth in the ocean."

"To understand the nature of love is to understand the nature of being."

"We are all travelers on the same journey."

"The capacity for ecstasy is the whole thing."

"What is the purpose of art? To answer the questions that cannot be answered in words."