“He was like a man who had served a term in prison or had been to Harvard College or had lived for a long time with foreigners in South America.”

“He had a hint of a British accent; either he was American and had been educated in England or was English and had been living in America too long. (Or he just could have been an asshole.)”

“The other day a patient told me that he had gotten into what was a very good college. 'It's not Harvard,' he said. 'Harvard's not Harvard either,' I answered.”

“what will the South be like without all our fine boys? What would the South have been if they had lived?”

“And if the man who once upon a time had been a boy who promised he'd never fall in love with another girl as long as he lived kept his promise, it wasn't because he was stubborn or even loyal. He couldn't help it.”

“It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.”