If you mind your own business, you'll stay busy all the time.

Some high society lady said is your horse outside? No ma'am, he's between my legs, but your too fat to ride.

Somewhere between raising hell and amazing grace, Lord I know just how they feel.

We say grace and we say ma'am. If you ain't in to that, we don't give a damn.

Good friends, good whiskey, and good lovin', I want to thank you Lord.

The greatest of men, they don't get too big to cry. They just loose faith in love and life.

You can do anything that you wanna do, but uh-uh, don't step on my cowboy boots.

My daddy, he was somewhere between God and John Wayne.

Let me sum it up for ya: We got some people who work for a living, and we got some people who vote for a living.

I get whiskey bent and hell bound.

I'd love to spit some Beechnut in that dude's eye and shoot him with my ole forty-five.

Writing is easy. Writing is hard. It's a breeze and a struggle, just like life.

I whisper like the sea in the horse's ear.

The readers who commited suicide after reading 'Werther' were not ideal but merely sentimental readers.

I think a Donald Trump presidency sets up an Elizabeth Warren ascendancy. And it not Elizabeth Warren, someone of her ilk. And I think that's dreadful.

I love all vintage-everything, really. I love fashion. I've always loved it. And the fifties, I've always loved.

I always thought it was a trap to fit into ideologies, and maybe that's a luxury position, but my work is a reflection of my being here. My being here is not a reflection of an idea.

I find that time constraints actually make me more productive, and "real world" experiences provide a lot of inspiration to write.

If it is good not to touch a woman, then it is bad to touch a woman always and in every case.

I like to think of myself as a naturalist - insofar as that term is at all clear.

I've never been sentimental about my horse. The horse doesn't give a damn about you. If you want to know the truth - horses are dumb.