-she remembered them kindly, for there was a sweetness in boys that didn't last long, once they became men.

True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriend - and he accepts it

Self-parody is the first portent of age.

Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas without eating a chicken fried steak.

Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic.

If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.

Uva uvum vivendo varia fit

People would be bored shitless if they had to love only the good in someone they care about.

A woman's love is like the morning dew. It's just as likely to settle on a horse turd as a rose.

Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.

Yesterday's gone on down the river and you can't get it back.

I know nothing, except what everyone knows--if there when grace dances, I should dance.

I understand what's it like to work all week and on Friday night just want to go and leave your brain at the door, buy some popcorn and be thrilled by something.

I believe that freedom of speech and freedom of religion go hand-in-hand in America.

Once you overcome the hatred within your mind, you will discover that in the world outside, there is no longer any such thing as even a single enemy.

For 3 Million you could give everyone in Scotland a shovel, and we could dig a hole so deep we could hand her over to Satan in person.

Oil is like a wild animal. Whoever captures it has it.

Conceptuality is subjective; realization is objective.

The girl gave him a look which ought to have stuck at least four inches out of his back.

The image of all the cars leaving pastel-colored people at the same time has never really left me as an anti-ambition for life!

Opportunity does not knock. You have to find it