Members of the Academy are mostly urban people. We are an urban nation. We are not a rural nation. It's not easy even to get a rural story made.

True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriend - and he accepts it

Self-parody is the first portent of age.

Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas without eating a chicken fried steak.

Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic.

If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.

Uva uvum vivendo varia fit

People would be bored shitless if they had to love only the good in someone they care about.

A woman's love is like the morning dew. It's just as likely to settle on a horse turd as a rose.

Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.

Yesterday's gone on down the river and you can't get it back.

I commit my life to listening to my own heart and soul.

The weight of the dead was heavier than the pounds of the body.

One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

We can't just drill our way out of the energy and climate challenge that we face.

I see myself as most people see themselves, you have good days and bad days. I don't think I'm better looking now than I did three years ago.

Our hope in Christ for the future is the mainspring and the mainstay of our joy down here today.

I thought men like that shot themselves.

He made me suddenly realize that photographs could reach eternity through the moment.

Life is too short to blame other people.

I know my music probably isn't going to matter to the public after I die, but that doesn't mean I don't have something to offer.