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

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.

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

USA corporations are legally regulated by laws which their managers know are rarely enforced. This criminal activity is what the USA government calls: Deregulation.

A straightforward answer to a straightforward question will move you that much more forward in this world, that much faster.

Greed, however it manifests itself, is always ugly.

I've never really understood the criticism that climbing is inherently selfish, since it could equally be argued about virtually any other hobby or sport. Is gardening selfish?

I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.

The first exhibition [Publo Picasso] was organized by the communist party - because of his position during the war and all that.

All progress means war with society.

Rhyme and meter force gaps in meaning so the muse can enter.

Man, I wouldn't know where to begin on education reform, but one thing we have to do is add teacher accountability WITHOUT stressing standardized test scores.

I feel a little uncomfortable at being asked the sorts of questions that other Catholics in public life tend not to be asked.