Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.

Everybody is nothing until you love them.

Being a memory play, it is dimly lighted, it is sentimental. It is not realistic.

A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young an' believing.

I can't expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.

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.

Only some radical change can divert the downward course of my spirit, some startling new place or people to arrest the drift, the drag.