There seems no plan because it is all plan.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

I know lots of people who are educated far beyond their intelligence.

It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.

There's no such thing as being too Southern.

The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.

Baptists never make love standing up. They're afraid someone might see them and think they're dancing.

It's better to have died a small child than to be a politician who gets caught in a scandal during a slow news month.

You call to a dog and a dog will break its neck to get to you. Dogs just want to please. Call to a cat and its attitude is, 'What's in it for me?'

Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

A law of survival, Ragle had said. Those who refused to respond to the new stimulus would perish. Adapt or perish . . . version of a timeless rule.

Really interesting novels, they always are so demanding of you on some level that you don't fall asleep.

I'm really no different than anybody else; except that sometimes I get my name in the paper.

I may say that I think greed about poetry is the only permissible greed - it is, indeed, unavoidable.

If you begin the day with a laugh, you may, nevertheless, end it with a sob and a sigh.

I think I have gone through my entire public career never telling a lie. I have made mistakes but I never knowingly lied.

If this is death, it is easier than life.

To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.

I don't read a word that's written about me. I don't read my own interviews. I don't read reviews. I think it would drive me insane.

Nature is God's Old Testament.