Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.

A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't.

Don't plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me - choke those little bad days. Choke 'em down to nothing.

We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.

I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.

when your down on your luck and you've lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans

I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.

The folks who know the truth aren't talking.... The ones who don't have a clue, you can't shut them up!

You have to keep busy. After all, no dog's ever pissed on a moving car.

When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.

Most people don't care if you're telling them the truth or if you're telling them a lie, as long as they're entertained by it.

People say keep your emotions outside, how the hell is that possible!!!!

It is the whole business of the whole church to preach the whole gospel to the whole world.

Death would be a complete knowingness, but what frightened him was this: not knowing beforehand what it was he would know.

If the antisemites want to hate, let them hate, and let them go to hell.

[O]rganized violence punctuated by committee meetings.

Morfran thrust his axe straight up. He pretty much seemed to have one sign for everything: poke a hole in the sky.

And I put the latte down on a table, awash in the happy middle of my greatest adventure.

The scientist's inquiry into the causes of things is providing an ever more extensive understanding of nature.

It's my opinion that if you're trying to tell a realistic story that centers around realistic characters, you can't help but touch on important issues. Those issues are what make us human.

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.