I once owned a collection of 77 novels that won the Pulitzer. The only good novel of the bunch was The Grapes of Wrath.

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.

Love not because you have to attract someone, love because you have an abundance of love in your heart.

It is not in our power to determine our destiny.

I pressed my dark issues to the back of my mind and smiled a slight untruthful happiness . . .

Crap, make one, two really bad decisions in your life, and you spend the rest of it doubting everything.

It is always sad when someone leaves home, unless they are simply going around the corner and will return in a few minutes with ice-cream sandwiches.

Every one hath a foole in his sleeve.

If you don't change direction, you end up where you are headed.

Most hatred is based on fear, one way or another.

Commitment is a big part of what I am and what I believe. How committed are you to winning? How committed are you to being a good friend?

If one person has a right to something he did not earn, of necessity it requires that another person not have a right to something that he did earn.