Perhaps the most vivid recollection of my youth is that of the local wheelmen, led by my father, stopping at our home to eat pone, sip mint juleps, and flog the field hands. This more than anything cultivated my life-long aversion to bicycles.

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.

We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.

People are not so dreadful when you know them. That's what you have to remember! And everybody has problems, not just you, but practically everybody has got some problems. You think of yourself as having the only problems, as being the only one who is disappointed. But just look around you and you will see lots of people as disappointed as you are.

What on earth can you do on this earth but catch at whatever comes near you, with both your fingers, until your fingers are broken?

I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.

Mexico is the front door to South America - and the back door to the states.