Southerners have a genius for psychological alchemy...If something intolerable simply cannot be changed, driven away or shot they will not only tolerate it but take pride in it as well.

I'm for prayer in the schools because ritual and ceremony are calming and civilizing, and the little fartlings should be tamped down whenever possible.

Oppressed people are treacherous for the simple reason that treachery is both a means of survival and a way to curry favor with one's oppressor.

Keep dating and you will become so sick, so badly crippled, so deformed, so emotionally warped and mentally defective that you will marry anybody.

If whisky or salt won't cure it, then to hell with it. I worry about important things.

I don't mind being regarded as perverted and unnatural, but I would die if people thought I was a Democrat.

Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.