I think women rule the world and that no man has ever done anything that a woman either hasn't allowed him to do or encouraged him to do.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

What kind of alchemy could create a perfume that would make a reaction to a person lukewarm, indifferent and apathetic?If such a scent could be made I'd like some.

If you told the truth, that was all well and good and if you told the un-truth, well, that's still well and good. Folk songs had taught me that.

There's no liquor in the land that can stop your brain from bleedin

Too much of nothing, it just makes a fellow mean.

The ghosts race towards the light, you can almost hear the heavy breathing spirits, all determined to get somewhere. New Orleans, unlike a lot of places you go back to and that don't have the magic anymore, still has got it. Night can swallow you up, yet none of it touches you. You can't see it, but you know it's here. Somebody's always sinking.