“The hotel was once where things coalesced, where you could meet both townspeople and travelers. Not so in a motel. No matter how you build it, the motel remains the haunt of the quick and dirty, where the only locals are Chamber of Commerce boys every fourth Thursday.”
William Least Heat Moon
“You'll be the same year after year except for the people you meet, the books you read, the films you watch, the places you travel, and the new things you do.”
Lorrin L. Lee
“I will teach you my townspeoplehow to perform a funeralfor you have it over a troopof artists--unless one should scour the world--you have the ground sense necessary.”
William Carlos Williams
“Thirteen hundred motel rooms, meals, rental cars ... Pastor's School is the largest meeting of this kind in the country.”
Dan Wolfe
“Between Texarkana and Little Rock, there's not a motel or hotel room to be found,”
David Hall
“We call it the Motel Seven because it has seven birthing stalls.”
Rene Bradley
“going to make me sell the motel and make me go with him.”
Jackie Spaulding
