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

Women do have an affinity for evil, for believing that no woman is to be trusted, but that some men are too innocent to protect themselves.

any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man

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.

You can't. You just have to.

A hack writer who would have been considered fourth rate in Europe, who tried out a few of the old proven 'sure-fire' literary skeletons with sufficient local color to intrigue the superficial and the lazy.

Civilization begins with distillation