A man or a race either if he's any good can survive his past without even needing to escape from it and not because of the high quite often only too rhetorical rhetoric of humanity but for the simple indubitable practical reason of his future: that capacity to survive and absorb and endure and still be steadfast.

Read, read read. Read everything.

I am not one of those women who can stand things.

War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.

It's terrible to be young. It's terrible. Terrible

I don't care much for facts, am not much interested in them, you can't stand a fact up, you've got to prop it up, and when you move to one side a little and look at it from that angle, it's not thick enough to cast a shadow in that direction.

Mississippi begins in a lobby of a Memphis, Tennessee hotel and extends south to the Gulf of Mexico