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

Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too.

Only when the clock stops does time come to life

Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.

One day I was talking to Cora. She prayed for me because she believed I was blind to sin, wanting me to kneel and pray too, because people to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.

Surely there is something in madness, even the demoniac, which Satan flees, aghast at his own handiwork, and which God looks on in pity.

There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damn fool if he doesn't.