A bookman’s love of books is a love of books, not merely of the information in them.

True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriend - and he accepts it

Self-parody is the first portent of age.

Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas without eating a chicken fried steak.

Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic.

If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.

Uva uvum vivendo varia fit

People would be bored shitless if they had to love only the good in someone they care about.

A woman's love is like the morning dew. It's just as likely to settle on a horse turd as a rose.

Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.

Yesterday's gone on down the river and you can't get it back.

Life can be how you choose or are governed by fate.

Sometimes, you can try all you want to change something, but no matter what you do, nothing will change. The key is to at least know that you tried to make a difference.

The wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you

I think you have an enormous amount of fear and uncertainty in this country. And it's not just from San Bernardino or from Paris.

Fake it, you will make it. But you have to believe it.

College is something you complete. Life is something you experience.

The difference between neurosis and wisdom is struggle.

The passions do not die out; they burn out.

Faith is an evil precisely because it requires no justification and brooks no argument.

Make songs for Death as you would sing to Love -But you will not assuage him. He aloneOf all the gods will take no gifts from men.