Robert Penn Warren, All The King's Men Quotes

If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other.

Reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events.

The best luck always happens to people who don't need it.

If you want him to do it, you've got to change the picture of the world inside his head.

He would get up and go out into a world which seemed very unfamiliar, but with a tantalizing unfamiliarity like the world of boyhood to which an old man returns.

Sometimes sleep gets to be a serious and complete thing. You stop going to sleep in order that you may be able to get up, but get up in order that you may be able to go back to sleep.

You are dehydrated, " I said. "The result of alcohol taken in excess. But that is the only way to take it. It is the only way to do a man any good.