In the darkness things always go away from you. Memory holds you down while regret and sorrow kick hell out of you. The only help you'll get is a few hard drinks and morning.

Life sends us messages all the time - then sits around laughing over how we're not gonna be able to figure them out.

Bombs fall and wipe out civilization as we know it, two things come up out of the ashes: roaches and F-150s.

Get Carter remains among the great crime novels, a lean, muscular portrait of a man stumbling along the hard edge - toward redemption. Ted Lewis cuts to the bone.

The best predictor of preschool children's physical activity is simply being outdoors.

Truth is, of course, relative. But then, so is relative.

Time went by, which is what time does, what it is.

Rina’s always claimed that I expect too little from life, ” Standard said.“Then at least you’ll never be disappointed.

Why’d you call, boy? What did you want from me?""The company of a friend, I think.""Always a cheap treat.

The dam of my eyes broke, and tears flooded the land.

Here we raise his children for him, cook for him, bring up his crops, butcher his hogs - even fight his wars for him - and he still won't acknowledge our existence.

It's hilarious to me that by writing an obscene fake children's book I am mistaken for a parenting expert.

Since then I've always thought that under rape in the dictionary it should tell the truth. It is not just forcible intercourse; rape means to inhabit and destroy everything.

If the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell

My mom makes the best Cajun stuff. I'm a big gumbo guy. I've lost a lot of my Louisiana accent, so now when I say 'gumbo,' I feel like someone who's never said the word before.

I never expected the White House to be warm, and the artwork on the walls was extraordinary. I am a fan of the Louvre, but being there it was almost just as good.

Man hath weaved out a net, and this net throwne upon the Heavens, and now they are his own.

Physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an attempt by an atom to understand itself.

A goal without a deadline is just a dream.

For one who has really mastered the way of warfare, his enemy can do nothing to escape death.

The Universe provides abundantly when you're in a state of gratefulness.