But no earthly foot can step between a man and his destiny.

Said Aristotle unto Plato, 'Have another sweet potato?' Said Plato unto Aristotle, 'Thank you, I prefer the bottle.'

When a man ain't got no ideas of his own, he'd ought to be kind o' careful who he borrows 'em from.

When you can't have what you choose, you just choose what you have.

It was neither preaching nor praying that made a better man of me, but one or two people who believed in me better than I deserved, and I hated to disappoint them.

It may be that them whose pleasure brings you into this world owes you a living, but it don't mean the world is responsible.

I thought there should in truth be heavy damages for malpractice on human souls.

With a gun against my belly I... I always smile.

An aristocrat in morals as in mind.

Forgive my asking you to use your mind. It is a thing which no novelist should expect of his reader...

Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.

I'm interested in the poetry of reality.

I keep my undies in the icebox!

I don't enjoy doing nothing or sitting in my trailer watching ESPN.

When you long for the port, it is time to leave the journey; when you long for the journey, it is time to leave the port!

What has changed is that people have stopped working together.

Violence is not the only means of persuasion.

Don't think about what you’ll tell people afterward. The time is here and now. Make the most of it.

I know how to do anything, I'm a mom.