“Only Southerners have taken horsewhips and pistols to editors about the treatment or maltreatment of their manuscript. This--the actual pistols--was in the old days, of course, we no longer succumb to the impulse. But it is still there, within us.”
“A banana is not a pistol. Still, please don’t point one at me.”
“I turn even more flustered when I remember that I have actually pistol-whipped him in the face before. Romantic.”
“Words are loaded pistols.”
“The pistol is not a weapon, it is an impertinence.”
“Do you think, maybe, we could continue this someplace more private? Because I can see your brother watching us from behind that palm tree--and man, he's still holding that pistol."~Ryan”