Lady bartenders live a tougher life than anybody knows.

Home is where you hang your hangover.

I try to stay two drinks ahead of reality and three behind a drunk

I had done either too much coke or too little, a constant problem in my life.

Consideration touches more deeply and longer than passion.

There's no accounting for laws. Or the changes wrought by men and time.

I have learned some things. Modern life is warfare without end: take no prisoners, leave no wounded, eat the dead--that's environmentally sound.

Youth endures all things, kings and poetry and love. Everything but time.

...the sun rose each morning to stare into my face with the blank but touching gaze of a lovely retarded child.

Maybe I will go to Paris. Who knows? But I’ll sure as hell never Go back to Texas again

The only person more cynical than a drunk is a reformed drunk.

So I got on with the business of lawyering away at the evidence. Minimizing it. Defending Jacob.

The true genius is a mind of large general powers accidentally determined to some particular direction.

Neue Phaenomena zu erklären, dieses macht meine Sorgen aus, und wie froh ist der Forscher, wenn er das so fleissig Gesuche findet, eine Ergötzung wobei das Herz lacht.

My question right now would be to Colonel Gaddafi, which is: 'What on earth do you think you are doing? Stop it.'

Eat, drink and remarry is my motto.

I used to sing Bill Monroe songs. And I'd sing Dennis Day songs like songs that he sang on the Jack Benny show.

Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervaded that time of my life.

I'm a huge Obama fan. I think it's such an unbelievably great thing to have a President who's competent and not insane.

I shot this wonderful picture called American Saint a couple of years ago, which is still looking for release.

Don't confuse honours with achievement.