Many are the stories I have heard about myself. I have mistresses I have never met. When I hear that I am a sodomist and a zoophalist then I shall know that I have reached the high point of fame, but I suppose I can hardly expect such exaltation for many years.

There's a responsibility in being a person. It's more than just taking up space where air would be.

There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do. It's all part of the same thing. And some of the things folks do is nice, and some ain't nice, but that's as far as any man got a right to say.

You can't go home again because home has ceased to exist except in the mothballs of memory.

I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.

And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way.

What do I want in a doctor? Perhaps more than anything else-a friend with special knowledge.