I once owned a collection of 77 novels that won the Pulitzer. The only good novel of the bunch was The Grapes of Wrath.

Nobody run off with her,” Roscoe said. "She just run off with herself, I guess.

The reason men are so awful is because some woman has spoiled them.

I never met a soul in this world as normal as me.

In times of crisis human beings don't have it in them to be rational.

WHEN AUGUSTUS CAME OUT on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake—not a very big one. It had probably just been crawling around looking for shade when it ran into the pigs. They were having a fine tug-of-war with it, and its rattling days were over.

I don't see how being married could be any worse than listening to you talk for twenty years, but that still ain't much of a recommendation for it.