This system is really broken. No Child Left Behind has really failed and the only way to solve education is to leave one governor behind.

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.

I felt torn Between living and dying Between sleeping and surviving.

When analytic thought, the knife, is applied to experience, something is always killed in the process.

One of the obligations of the writer is to say or sing all that he or she can, to deal with as much of the world as becomes possible to him or her in language.

I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday.

It must certainly be more dangerous to live in ignorance than to live with knowledge.

Dostoevsky preaches the morality of the pariah, the morality of the slave.

Every thing new is fine.

Using death to defeat death... wow. No way the devil saw that one coming.

The customer rarely buys what the business thinks it sells him.

A surfeiting of terror soon made terror a cliché.