Howell Heflin Quotes

“At the end of a long introduction: You omitted perhaps one thing - that in 1974 I had a hemorrhoidectomy.”

“Don't trust people who tell you other people's secrets.”

“My only regrets are the moments when i doubted myself and took the safe route. Life is too short to waste time being unhappy.”

“Embrace the void and have the courage to exist.”

“I would do most anything to make you happy, Howel, if you'd let me. I would become your servant, lay whatever you wanted at your feet.”

“But it was too late. I was down the steps and out the door, where the warm night air almost felt like forgiveness.”

“I wish you to believe whatever you think is true, at any and every cost.”

“(W.D.) Howells asserted that the Americans' 'love of the supernatural is their common inheritance from no particular ancestry.' Their fiction, he added, often gathers in the gray 'twilight of the reason,' on 'the borderland between experience and illusion." Howells's geographical metaphor was derived, of course, from Hawthorne's idea of a moonlit 'neutral territory, somewhere between the real world and fairy-land, where the Actual and the Imaginary may meet, and each imbue itself with the nature of the other.' Whether literally, as in Cooper's The Spy, or metaphorically, as in Hawthorne's works, the neutral territory/borderland was the familiar setting of the American romance. As American writers came to realize, not only was there a borderland between East and West, civilization and wilderness, but also between the here and the hereafter, between conscious and unconscious, 'experience and illusion' - psychic frontiers on the edge of territories both enticing and terrifying.”

“The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.”

“Orrin Hatch is old enough to be my father, and I don't want my father running the United States Senate Finance Committee.”