From him to the stars, in all directions, there was only silence and emptiness.

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.

If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.

An advantage of having one child is you always know who did it.

The best pictures are yet to be made.

In war, hunting, and love, men for one pleasure a thousand griefes prove.

The specific course you decide upon is, within certain parameters, less important than the vigor with which you execute it.

I don't think men experience the embargo on channeling the autobiography in their literature.

The kids are saying 'Make Love, Not War', and I'm beginning to think they're right. For war costs millions of dollars a day, and love--just a few bucks a night!

I had been sort of a rising star - an athlete, a scholar, a leader. My dream was to become a high-level national security adviser.

I was attracted by the curve — the liberated, sensual curve suggested by the possibilities of new technology yet so often recalled in venerable old baroque churches.

You know, I don't only play for the record books.