Next to music beer was best. - Carson McCullers

Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.

Wherever you look there's meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and loss. A fellow can't live without giving his passive acceptance to meanness. Somebody wears his tail to a frazzle for every mouthful we eat and every stitch we wear—and nobody seems to know. Everybody is blind, dumb, and blunt-headed—stupid and mean.

If you walk along the main street on an August afternoon there is nothing whatsoever to do.