she should have told me that times slides away on a hillside of lose shale and takes everything in its path-dreams, opportunities, hopes. And youth. It takes that fastest of all.

Who can say how many lives have been saved by books?

It was by listening to Goodman's band, that I began to notice the guitarist Charlie Christian, who was one of the first musicians to play solos in a big band set-up.

Childhood obesity affects all pedophiles.

I've never heard of a comedy that hasn't had reshoots, especially for the ending of a movie in a comedy.

NASCAR logic isn't always logical.

I guess I'm just courtly until people get in my way. You'll find most Southerners are like that.

Capitalism has given people both the liberty and the incentive to create, produce, and trade, thereby generating prosperity.

My voice has gotten better from smoking.

The role of art for me is the visualization of attitude, of the human attitude towards life, towards the world.

I am very superstitious about toasts. I never toast with water, and I'm very careful to make eye contact with everyone I toast with.