“People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad.”

“I believe more in the goodness of bad people than i do in the badness of good people.”

“This was such bad writing that it was good.”

“I do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite.”

“What life gives us, good or bad, we seldom deserve.”

“If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good”

“People complain about the bad things that happen to em that they don't deserve but they seldom mention the good. About what they done to deserve them things. I don't recall that I ever give the good Lord all that much cause to smile on me. But he did.”

“bad things, like good things don't happen any more often than they ought to by chance. the universe has no mind, no feelings, and no personality, so it doesn't do things in order to either hurt or please you. bad things happen because things happen.”

“With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion.”

“The world is full of good people who do bad things!”