I met her last summer on a moonlight boat trip.

I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.

People go to the movies instead of moving. Hollywood characters are supposed to have all the adventures for everybody in America, while everybody in America sits in a dark room and watches them have them.

Don't you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn't just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?

For there was a conspiracy of dullness in the world, a universal plan to shut out the resurgences of spirit which might interfere with clockwork. Better to keep your elevation unseen until it is higher than strangers' hands can reach to pull you down to their level.

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory.

If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.