“The best thing I can do is keep that girl’s mind—and her mouth—busy.This ought to be fun.”

“I am living my real life, this is it. Now is now, and if I waited to be happier, waited to have fun, waited to do the things that I know I ought to do, I might never get the chance.”

“He wanted to pay her; he thought women ought to be paid for keeping men from dying or going out of their minds.”

“I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.”

“Why you keep trying to seek and encounter with me, lady?The only best thing I can do to stay alive now is to be invisible.”

“He tried to kiss me. One of the few things that had impressed me in college was a Southern girl’s account o how she avoided being kissed on the doorstep of her house once by wearing a flower in her hair and sticking it in her mouth when she said good night. Only I had no flower.”