“If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.”

“If writers were good business men, they'd have too much sense to be writers.”

“Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.”

“Down our way we're always had a theory that the Civil War was not brought on by Secession of Slavery or the State's Rights issue. These matters contributed to the quarrel, but there is a deeper reason. It was bought on by some Yankee coming down south and putting nutmeg in a julep. So our folks up and left the Union flat.”

“Who said anything about justice? There's no such thing. But injustice is as much a part of life as the weather.”

“Soon he would see war. Jis romanticism and inexperience insulated him from the thought that he might feel it, too.”

“...too weary and dazed by unfinished sleep even to swear. There comes a degree of numbness in fatigue and exasperation which can be expressed only by a sullen silence.”