“Faulkner sat in our living room and read from Light in August. That wa...” — Leslie Fiedler Quote

“Faulkner sat in our living room and read from Light in August. That was incredible.”

“I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis.”

“I admire Ginsberg as a poet, despite the fact that he seems not to know when he is being good and when he is bad. But he will last, or at least those poems will last.”

“The west coast of Corsica on a boat in August is probably as beautiful as it gets.”

“On August 30, 1982, I get issued a copyright officially recognizing me as the inventor of e-mail.”

“We did the two-year extension of Bush tax cuts in 2010. We negotiated the Budget Control Act in August of 2011 and the fiscal cliff deal at the end of 2012, which saved 99 percent of Americans from a tax increase.”