I couldn't stand it. I still can't stand it. I can't stand the way things are. I cannot tolerate this age.

Bourbon does for me what the piece of cake did for Proust.

You live in a deranged age, more deranged than usual because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise.

To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something.

In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. That is the victory. To do anything less is to be less than a man.

We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their face away.

I like to eat crawfish and drink beer. That's despair?

In a word, the consumer of mass culture is lonely, not only lonely, but spiritually impoverished.

Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us something we know but don’t know that we know.

Lucky is the man who does not secretly believe that every possibility is open to him.

I'm not perfect. But I'll always be real

I'm on my high school football team and MUST show how much I know.

Elia Kazan - the films he made were such a big deal for me when I was growing up.

It is possible to have a pretty good life and career being a leech and a parasite in the media world, gadding about from TV studio to TV studio, writing inconsequential pieces and having a good time.

Newt Gingrich called it [Donald] Trump's biggest mistake since he won the election, these crazy accusations about voter fraud.

Lazy people always work harder than anyone else; they're so eager to get through and lie down again.

What is possible for individual man is impossible for the masses.

The best rose-bush, after all, is not that which has the fewest thorns, but that which bears the finest roses.

Portray the world for what it is, and you will find truth.

Even the straws under my knees shout to distract me from prayer