Hemingway shot himself. I don't like a man that takes the short way home.

The phenomenon of war is its hermaphroditism: the principles of victory and of defeat inhabit the same body and the necessary opponent, enemy, is merely the bed they self-exhaust each other on.

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

It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That's how the world is going to end.

It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless.

Dear God, let me be damned a little longer, a little while.

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