Quotes By Harry Crews

What the artist owes the world is his work; not a model for living.

There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.

He did not know what love was. And he did not know what good it was. But he knew he carried it around with him, a scabrous spot of rot, of contagion, for which there was no cure.

Teaching, real teaching, is - or ought to be - a messy business.

Survival is triumph enough.