Peace is only better than war when it's not hell too. War being hell makes sense.

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.

I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older - until I drop dead of beauty.

It reveals how well you value someone - the way you handle their belongings.

Courage is heartworth making itself felt in deeds. It never waits for chances it makes chances.

A dentist at work in his vocation always looks down in the mouth.

Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey.

I think singing traditional country is wonderful, because I'm bringing it to my generation and to the younger kids.

Mother cow is as useful dead as when she is alive.

Age is not different from earlier life as long as you're sitting down

I encourage first time filmmakers to be ambitious and take chances and risks, because you never know where your career is going to go.

The Constitution requires that Congress treat similarly situated persons similarly, not that it engages in gestures of superficial equality.