You may call a jay a bird. Well, so he is, in a measure--because he's got feathers on him, and don't belong to no church, perhaps;but otherwise he is just as much a human as you be. And I'll tell you for why. A jay's gifts and instincts, and feelings, and interests, cover the whole ground. A jay hasn't got any more principle than a Congressman.

I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.

The North thinks it knows how to make corn bread, but this is a gross superstition. Perhaps no bread in the world is quite as good as Southern corn bread, and perhaps no bread in the world is quite as bad as the Northern imitation of it.

The writing begins when you’ve finished. Only then do you know what you’re trying to say.

Had double chins all the way down to his stomach.

The reason most people don't go to church is because they've already been.

Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.