Razzy was insulting me silently somehow.

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.

Choose battles that you can win without losing your heart and your soul.

It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing.

The best thing next to wit is a consciousness that it is not in us; without wit, a man might then know how to behave himself, so as not to appear to be a fool or a coxcomb.

'Cause if your love was all I had in this life, well that would be enough until the end of time. So rest your weary heart and relax your mind, 'Cause I'm gonna love you, girl, until the end of time.

I do like change. That's the one thing exciting about me.

Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.

As long as you find something beautiful, good, and true to believe in and abide by, you have the equivalent of God in your life.

Your absence is the presence of godliness.

The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

I would argue that in times of war, sealed lips sink entire democracies. If we don't have access to vital information, we lose everything.