Willie Morris

“He was more than a dog. He was a presence.”

“For a writer, memory is everything. It is the well from which we draw our stories.”

“Words are the only things that last forever.”

“A good dog is one of the finest things a boy can have.”

“In the South, perhaps more than any other region, we go back to our home in dreams and memories, hoping it remains what it was on a lazy, childhood afternoon.”

“What a place the South is, not a place at all, but a mood.”

“Life is a series of dogs.”

“The landscape of one's childhood is the most important landscape of all.”

“To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.”

“We were all that we had, and it was enough.”

“The South is a land of ghosts.”

“The days were ours, the nights too, and the woods and the river.”

“The best thing about a small town is that when you don't know what you're doing, someone else does.”

“A town is a place where there are no strangers.”

“The past is a living thing.”