All good New Orleanians go to look at the Mississippi at least once a day. At night it is like creeping into a dark bedroom to look at a sleeping child--something of that sort--gives you the same warm nice feeling, I mean.

In youth there are always two forces fighting in people. The warm unthinking little animal struggles against the thing that reflects and remembers

The disease we all have and that we have to fight against all our lives is ... the disease of self.

You can make a killing as a playwright in America, but you can't make a living.

In the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything. Be brave enough to dare to be loved. Be something more than man or woman. Be Tandy.

I had a world, and it slipped away from me. The War blew up more than the bodies of men....It blew ideas away.