I read novels but I also read the Bible. And study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more excited I get.

If you aren't gonna say exactly how and what you feel, you might as well not say anything at all.

I love the freedoms we got in this country, I appreciate your freedom to burn your flag if you want to, but I really appreciate my right to bear arms so I can shoot you if you try to burn mine.

You have to be what you are. Whatever you are, you gotta be it.

Life is rough so you gotta be tough.

There's a lot of things blamed on me that never happened. But then, there's a lot of things that I did that I never got caught at.

Life and love go on, let the music play.

I learn from my mistakes. It’s a very painful way to learn, but without pain, the old saying is, there’s no gain.

it's good to know who hates you and it is good to be hated by the right people

There is a spiritual side to me that goes real deep, but I confess right up front that I'm the biggest sinner of them all.

Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.

For Zola, as for Huysmans, nature itself is uncanny because it is the domain of the feminine, a domain that is constitutionally defective, lacking, even pathological.

Any marriage can last forever, as long as both partners remain committed to their vows.

How do you learn if they don't make mistakes? It's good to make mistakes but not that many.

O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?

Money is a kind of poetry.

Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.

For some reason, I write about crash-landed spaceships quite a lot and my wife is sick of hearing of hearing my ideas for new tales about them.

Elegance is not about being noticed, its about being remembered.

No opinion can be trusted; even the facts may be nothing but a printer's error.