A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories.

Bourbon does for me what the piece of cake did for Proust.

You live in a deranged age, more deranged than usual because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise.

To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something.

In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. That is the victory. To do anything less is to be less than a man.

We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their face away.

I like to eat crawfish and drink beer. That's despair?

In a word, the consumer of mass culture is lonely, not only lonely, but spiritually impoverished.

Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us something we know but don’t know that we know.

Lucky is the man who does not secretly believe that every possibility is open to him.

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection

Music itself has taught me never to underestimate a mistake, for, in the midst of all, it’s often in that mistake where the realm of the unexpected creation is hidden.

Do you know invisible determination and effort will always accomplish visible distinction and excellence?

Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.

Hope is the adrenalin of the soul.

I do cagefight commentary in my spare time.

Get up every day, love God, and do your best. He will do the rest!

I don't want to be an island. I want to be more of a tourist attraction. You stop here, I take your money and you go.

The French - cheese-eating surrender monkeys. The Germans - schnitzel snarfing stormtrooper spawn.

Let me say this as clearly as I can: No matter how sharp a grievance or how deep a hurt, there is no justification for killing innocents.