Havin' a gun around's an invitation to somebody to shoot you.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives.

There are just some kind of men…who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one.

There's no substitute for the love of language, for the beauty of an English sentence. There's no substitute for struggling, if a struggle is needed, to make an English sentence as beautiful as it should be.

People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.

You see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that's the way I want to live.