Home is where you hang your hangover.

Lady bartenders live a tougher life than anybody knows.

I try to stay two drinks ahead of reality and three behind a drunk

I had done either too much coke or too little, a constant problem in my life.

Consideration touches more deeply and longer than passion.

There's no accounting for laws. Or the changes wrought by men and time.

I have learned some things. Modern life is warfare without end: take no prisoners, leave no wounded, eat the dead--that's environmentally sound.

Youth endures all things, kings and poetry and love. Everything but time.

...the sun rose each morning to stare into my face with the blank but touching gaze of a lovely retarded child.

Maybe I will go to Paris. Who knows? But I’ll sure as hell never Go back to Texas again

The only person more cynical than a drunk is a reformed drunk.

It’s important that young people know about the struggles we faced to get to the point we are today. Only then will they appreciate the hard-won freedom of blacks in this country.

Leaving one religion for the sake of another one is like breaking with a rapist for the sake of dating a misogynist.

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.

Dagny, we can never lose the things we live for. We may have to change their form at times, if we've made an error, but the purpose remains the same and the forms are ours to make.

In politics, sunny days and rainy days can change very quickly.

I wish to create trends rather than follow them.

The greatest single lesson to be learned from golf is mental discipline.

Love binds, and it binds forever. Good binds while evil unravels. Separation is another word for evil; it is also another word for deceit.

When you think you're listening to several conversations at once, they tell me, you may really simply be time sharing - that is, listening a little bit to this one, a little bit to that one

The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.