"To be human, one must be able to laugh. To be human, one must be able to weep."

"It’s a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing."

"Gator got his guts out in the water and the buzzards got his eyes."

"The wind is a sweet-singing fool."

"It seems to me that if I am to sustain myself as a writer, I must be given the right to write as I see fit."