I never met a soul in this world as normal as me.

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.

It seems that the people of Oran are like that friend of Flaubert who, on the point of death, casting a last glance at the irreplaceable earth, exclaimed: "Close the window, it's too beautiful.

We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

Holding on to grudges holds you back from achieving success.

As empaths, one of the quickest ways to completely losing our grounding in reality is by deferring our needs and wants in relationships.

A good way to forget your troubles is to help others out of theirs.

Dad almost died of a heart attack in the middle of making Apocalypse Now, the biggest movie of his life. It doesn't make you want to jump into that business.

You are the song of every bird, you are the poet's every word, every artist's picture, every writer's play.

Novelists have to love humanity to write anything worthwhile. Poets have to love themselves.

Were it possible for us to wait for ourselves to come into the room, not many of us would find our hearts breaking into flower as we heard the door handle turn.

I've got very strong hands from playing for many years.