You have no idea what an appetite it gives one, being executed.

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.

Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.

But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on.

He hugged her tight, mixing their tears to be bottled and fermented, so they could be drunk on each other when this was all over.

It is difficult to keep quiet if you have nothing to do

I live alone so I always just eat out. When I'm in another relationship, then maybe we'll start cooking together.

Lesson number one: Pay attention to the intrusion of the camera.

My joking answer to this question is that I leave a bowl of milk out on the back porch every night for the Idea Fairy. In the morning, the milk is gone and there's a brand-new shiny idea by the bowl.

Iran is the only country in the world that's threatening to erase another country from the map as part of a collective genocide.

Death. An instantaneous state, without past or future. Indispensable for entering eternity.

Every action has its pleasures and its price.