The educated Southerner has no use for an 'r', except at the beginning of a word.

Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.

The most outrageous lies that can be invented will find believers if a person only tells them with all his might.

Narrative should flow as flows the brook down through the hills and the leafy woodlands...a brook that never goes straight for a minute, but goes and goes briskly, sometimes ungrammatically, and sometimes fetching a horseshoe of ¾ of a mile around and at the end of the circuit flowing within a yard of the path that it traversed an hour before; but always going and always following at least one law, always loyal to that law, the law of narrative, which has no law. Nothing to do but make the trip; the how of it is not important, so that the trip is made.

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

The [Kodak is] the only witness I have encountered in my long experience that I couldn't bribe.

How unfortunate and how narrowing a thing it is for a man to have wealth who makes a god of it instead of a servant