I saw in their eyes something I was to see over and over in every part of the nation- a burning desire to go, to move, to get under way, anyplace, away from any Here. They spoke quietly of how they wanted to go someday, to move about, free and unanchored, not toward something but away from something. I saw this look and heard this yearning everywhere in every states I visited. Nearly every American hungers to move.

All men are moral. Only their neighbors are not.

A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers.

I think there must have been some other girl printed somewhere in his heart, for he was a man of love and his wife was not a woman to show her feelings.

You never oughta drink water when it ain't runnin'.

There is one thing pleasantly unconfusing about medicine. The direction and the end are fixed and the patient never works backward.

Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.