You can't deny what you've learned; you can't deny your travels; you can't deny the nature of your life.

That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.

The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.

One isn’t born one’s self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people’s ideas – and you have to work through it all.

Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.

It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything starts unravelling.

The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.

Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.

One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

The world is always in movement.

All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people

Your trusting idiocy knows no bounds

I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.

You can develop any habit or thought or behavior that you consider desirable or necessary.

I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991.

Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.

Some of the music I listen to is pop. I sing it in the shower - and then for public consumption.

Only a minute to minute relentless struggle can balance one's natural but stupefying insistence to remain unchanged.

The sweetest thing a guy said is that I look pretty with or without makeup.