Quotes About Styron

He has an idea. For wood. Or Styron does. Something about boxcars." "Boxcars?" "A mess of them at the old yard." "That's good news. That's real good news." He smiled, and she braced herself for the three words that she knew would follow. "The Lord provides," he said. She felt

I think that one of the compelling themes of fiction is this confrontation between good and evil.

It is a positive and active anguish, a sort of psychical neuralgia wholly unknown to normal life.

That I chose Independence Day as the moment to strike was of course a piece of deliberate irony.

Höss was hardly a sadist, nor was he a violent man or even particularly menacing. He might even be said to have possessed a serviceable decency. Indeed

history's greatest liquidator of Jews, the thick-witted Heinrich Himmler, was a chicken farmer.

Without quite noticing it, I had slid downward to a place where, as Styron put it, "all sense of hope had vanished, along with the idea of a futurity.