How was I gonna get an education, sitting right back of Bobby Ann Mason?

You are the dream I live with; you are the wish I'd made, the name I always whisper in every prayer I pray ... now that you left me, while you forget me, I'll hold you in my dreams.

I never wanted anything so much, I've got to have one. I want a girl in a pickup truck.

Nothing uses up alcohol faster than political argument.

We’re making strange fictions of strange things inside ourselves.

If you can't bring yourself to applaud because the performance was lousy, then applaud because it's over. They tried.

Friendship is the positive and unalterable choice of a person whom we have singled out for qualitites that we admire.

In the recession people are going to be looking even more at what movie stars are wearing, as it provides a fantasy outlet.

Everything in life has a price on it - there ain't a damn thing free in America, and football has got a price on it.

What we focus on we become. If you are just focusing on unhappy things, you will become unhappy. If you focus on happy states of mind, then it will grow in you.

Nobody ever got started on a career as a writer by exercising good judgment, and no one ever will, either, so the sooner you break the habit of relying on yours, the faster you will advance.

When I was teeny tiny, I definitely had a voice that didn't quite match the way I looked at five.

Most forms of rage, after all, are only sloppy cloaks for grief.