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.

The writing of words can lead to all sorts of absurdities.

He thought about himself and to the young that always brings sadness.

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.

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

I have seldom written a story, long or short, that I did not have to write and rewrite. There are single stories of mine that have taken me ten or twelve years to get written.

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