It was part of theTexas ritual? We know about champagne and caviar but we talk hog and hominy.

Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.

We no longer build fireplaces for physical warmth—we build them for the warmth of the soul; we build them to dream by, to hope by, to home by.

The goat's business is none of the sheep's concern.

Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.

A closed mind is a dying mind.

Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.

There are only two kinds of people in the world that really count. One kind's wheat and the other kind's emeralds.

Funny, isn't it, how your whole life goes by while you think you're only planning the way you're going to live it?

The feminine in the man is the sugar in the whisky. The masculine in the woman is the yeast in the bread. Without these ingredients the result is flat, without tang or flavor.

Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death – fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous, constant.

Oppression has been in existence as long as man himself has been in existence.

A strong realization hits me.

Call no man happy before he dies.

Every time I make a plan, God laughs at me.

Sometimes I just want to be left alone and be a normal kid for, like, five minutes. That's tough when the paparazzi are chasing you.

The Greeks saw everything in forms which we are trying to ascertain as law, and classify as cause.

This world is nothing but a trap. The only place where a man is safe and gets comfort is the secluded place of God.

People talk about Bollywood being very kitsch, and just songs and dances, and over the top and colorful.

Nobody knows anything, but I, knowing nothing, am the smartest man in the world.

It's always great to have another chance at something.