In God we trust; all others pay cash.

The reality of what we really are is often times found in the small snips, way down at the bottom of things.

I've met them down in the Cost and Accounting Department, clean-shaven and in white collars. They can't see a damn thing ridiculous about themselves... only about you.

Can you imagine 4,000 years passing, and you're not even a memory? Think about it, friends. It's not just a possibility. It is a certainty.

I had woven a tapestry of obscenity that as far as I know is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan.

The hand of fate had dipped into the ragbag of humanity.

A man today never feels so alive as when he is hurtling from one point to another on the azimuth.

Some men are Baptists, others Catholics; my father was an Oldsmobile man.

There are fewer things more thrilling in life than lumpy letters. That rattle.

Randy lay there like a slug. It was his only defense.

Manhattan cabs are born old.

There is a difference between right and wrong, always was and always will be, but each man's wrong and each man's right are different.

Being paid to wonder seems like a heavy responsibility at times.

Golf is the only sport that a professional can enjoy playing with his friends.

The Cadillac Escalade is the perfect vehicle for a pimp with a growing family.

Ideas often last but a day; feelings, dreams almost forever.

I now know that anything sweet, really sweet, that I have was nothing that I planned. If you don't have kids and animals, you don't truly know what real life is about.

Luckily I have a brother who looks after my administration and my money, because I'm a total spendthrift.

So many (too many) books are published every year, and it seems everyone is writing a book. Perhaps we should all be reading more and writing less!