If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted.

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.

In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn't know.

No matter what, you will be always wrong.

Lord save us all from ... a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my life-style

It seems to me that it is the basic right of any human being to work.

There is no self, yet we all exist. All phenomena are "empty," yet they have Buddha nature.

I'll pour you the first one and after that, if you don't have one, it's your own f****** fault. You know where it is.

I have to say you don't look anything like a policewoman." Maxia's perfect eyebrows arched as she gave Eve's dress a quick scan. "Leonardo dresses you, doesn't he?" "No, I usually do it myself.

I want to be everybody, and I want to be everything. One life is not enough.

Learn to cultivate your own garden.