My mother refused to let me fail. So I insisted.

Bourbon does for me what the piece of cake did for Proust.

You live in a deranged age, more deranged than usual because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise.

To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something.

In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. That is the victory. To do anything less is to be less than a man.

We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their face away.

I like to eat crawfish and drink beer. That's despair?

In a word, the consumer of mass culture is lonely, not only lonely, but spiritually impoverished.

Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us something we know but don’t know that we know.

Lucky is the man who does not secretly believe that every possibility is open to him.

The decker these ***holes brought with them is top tier, but I'm going to stomp his jelly beans so hard his kids will be born crooked.

Yes, it would really mean something to be kissed by Jenno.

Never is a promise, and you can't afford to lie.

Let today be the day you give up who you've been for who you can become.

The failure of political leaders to help uplift the poor will be judged a moral failure.

I like visiting LA, but I wouldn't want to live there.

Your dreams are ballbusters; they're not the yellow brick road.

Arafat rejected the deal because, as a dictator who had directed all his energies toward strengthening the Palestinians hatred toward Israel, Arafat could not afford to make peace.

There are substitutes for oil; there is no substitute for fresh water.

There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron.