Don't make a cemetery of your life by burying your talents.

If you tell the truth, then you don't have to have a good memory

Your son went into your kitchen and took a kitchen knife.

Beauty fades, dumb is forever.

The time to change was yesterday; the time to wake up is now.

"Beauty fades," my father would tell me, "but dumb? Dumb is forever."

Don't try to teach a pig to sing. It doesn't work, and it annoys the pig.

If you are trying to balance the scales of justice and equality in all your work relationships, you're going to come up short.

I only do one thing at a time; otherwise, I get confused and then I can't trick you.

I couldn't give a rat's tutu about your emotional distress

Don't pee on my leg and tell me it's raining.

It’s hillbilly urine

The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. Got that? -Coach Brevin

I have been a fan all my life, but now I have been out of football for over 10 years, and out of baseball for a little over six years and I don't go to games.

We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.

By the mid 1920s the typical American town was in full sexual bloom. The change came with erotic fashions, literature and movies, and an unsuspected sexual aid, the automobile.

When I'm trying a new form- trying to do something I'm not used to doing, which was true of the novel.

When your mind is liberated, your heart floods with compassion.

Well, rhythm is 90 percent of the interpretation.

He was the only man I ever knew who could get money from the rich and votes from the poor with the promise to protect them from each other.

This is called synchronicity - a state in which you almost feel as if you are in a collaborative arrangement with fate.