“You can be a mighty sailor, wrestling with an alligator. Romping through the swamp.”

“When you're up to your ass in alligators, you forget about cleaning the swamp.”

“Writing is the hardest way of earning a living with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.”

“If all I can say is I'm not in this swamp, I'm not in this swamp then there is not a rope in front of me and there is not an alligator behind me and there is not a girl sitting at the edge eating a hot dog and if I believe that, then dying would be the only answer because then Death couldn't come and say Peachy to me anymore and after all she has a brother who believes in hope.”

“THE ALLIGATOR IS AN ANACHRONISM THAT CAN EAT YOU!”

“The housekeeper had been there that afternoon. I could always tell because the sheets on the bed would be tucked in so tight, trying to get them out was like wrestling an alligator.”