...sitting with him was like sitting by yourself; he didn't talk except when it suited him. You asked him a question in the morning and he might answer in the afternoon, or he might never.

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”

“Wise Blood was written by an author congenitally innocent of theory, but one wi…”

“When she told a story, she rolled her eyes and waved her head and was very dram…”

“The grandmother decided that she would not mention that the house was in Tennes…”