Next to music, beer was best.

— Carson McCullers

People felt themselves watching him even before they knew that there was anything different about him. His eyes made a person think that he heard things that no one else had ever heard, that he knew things no one had ever guessed before. He did not seem quite human.

— Carson McCullers

That was all he wanted for himself – to give to her. Biff's mouth hardened. He had done nothing wrong but in him, he felt a strange guilt. Why? The dark guilt in all men, reckoned and without a name.

— Carson McCullers

That was the best of all. To speak the truth and be attended.

— Carson McCullers

The Captain swallowed his capsules and lay down in the dark with pleasant anticipation. This quantity of the drug gave him a unique and voluptuous sensation; it was as though a great dark bird alighted on his chest, looked at him once with fierce, golden eyes, and stealthily enfolded him in his dark wings.

— Carson McCullers

The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.

— Carson McCullers

The eyes of his friend were moist and dark, and in them, he saw the little rectangle pictures of himself that he had watched a thousand times.

— Carson McCullers

The job wouldn't be just put the summer, but for a long time, as long as she could see ahead. Once they were used to the money coming in it would be impossible to do without again.

— Carson McCullers

The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.

— Carson McCullers

The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.

— Carson McCullers