Seventeen publishers rejected the manuscript, at which time we knew we had something pretty hot.

I even went so far as to become a Southern Baptist for a while, until I realized that they didn't hold 'em under long enough.

Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.

I admit I was drinking a Guinness... but I did not swallow.

And I think musicians can better run this state than politicians. And, hell, beauticians can better run the state than politicians.

Musicians can run this state better than politicians. We won't get a lot done in the mornings, but we'll work late and be honest.

Poly means more than one, and ticks are bloodsucking parasites.

Well, I just said that Jesus and I were both Jewish and that neither of us ever had a job, we never had a home, we never married and we traveled around the countryside irritating people.

I just want Texas to be number one in something other than executions, toll roads and property taxes.

When a stray animal crosses your path, it may be as close to God as you're going to get in this lifetime.

People may surprise you with unexpected kindness. Dogs have a depth of loyalty that often we seem unworthy of. But the love of a cat is a blessing, a privilege in this world.

Some of us weren't born for rewards, Froi. We were born for sacrifices.

Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life’s expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person. Keeping that going is hard work.

Running is a big question mark that's there each and every day. It asks you, 'Are you going to be a wimp or are you going to be strong today?

Wherever you be, wherever you may, seek the truth, strive for the beautiful, achieve the good.

I hesitated for all the right reasons. And I accepted for all the wrong ones.

The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Silks, velvets, calicoes, and the whole lexicon of female fopperies.

I was punished for communicating.

There are no slow retroviruses, only slow retrovirologists.

Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.