All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

You use to ride on the chrome horse with your diplomat, who carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat.

It takes a lot to laugh, it takes a train to cry

For them that think death's honesty won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.

It's east to see without lookin' too far that not much is really sacred.

People's lives are filled with vice and the trappings of it. Ambition, greed and selfishness all have to do with vice. Sooner or later, you have to see through it or you don't survive.

Everything in New Orleans is a good idea. Bijou temple-type cottages and lyric cathedrals side by side. Houses and mansions, structures of wild grace. Italianate, Gothic, Romanesque, Greek Revival standing in a long line in the rain. Roman Catholic art. Sweeping front porches, turrets, cast-iron balconies, colonnades- 30-foot columns, gloriously beautiful- double pitched roofs, all the architecture of the whole wide world and it doesn't move.