"If you have Love in your life, it can make up for a great many things you lack.  If you don't have Love, no matter what else there is, it's never enough."

You think I don't have culture just because I'm from Louisiana.  Believe me, we got culture. We've always had sushi.  We just used to call it bait.

Southerners make good novelists; they have so many stories because they have so much family and live in torrid heat.

As our fellow citizens once observed, Southerners will be polite until they are angry enough to kill you.