It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

I know lots of people who are educated far beyond their intelligence.

It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.

There's no such thing as being too Southern.

The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.

Baptists never make love standing up. They're afraid someone might see them and think they're dancing.

It's better to have died a small child than to be a politician who gets caught in a scandal during a slow news month.

You call to a dog and a dog will break its neck to get to you. Dogs just want to please. Call to a cat and its attitude is, 'What's in it for me?'

Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.

What looks like a people problem is often a situation problem.

Things that appear on the front page of the newspaper as 'fact' are far more dangerous than the games played by a novelist, and can lead to wars.

The biggest stories in 2005 were the national disasters

I believe that reality TV should be called 'not reality' TV; it's fiction.

The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.

We're all capable of anything as human beings. Any emotion, any action. We really are.

I never did anything with the early recordings I made, I felt they weren't worthy.

I love interesting people with eccentric stories and outsiders of the world.

When digital recording came in about '84, everything started to follow into digital. Now, you've got the best recording media in the world, but it's not very pleasing to the ear.