A man who wouldn't cheat for a poke don't want one bad enough. --Augustus "Gus" McCrae

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.

Do you want the truth or fiction?

Trees and soils can absorb carbon dioxide released by fossil fuel burning. It would be great to subsidize responsible farmers and forest managers.

If the poor rabbits knew I was selling their dead bodies for wine, they would be heartbroken.

More people are ruined by victory, I imagine, than be defeat.

If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.

I see that being looked at askance as a form of elitism now, which is really scary.

I'm reaching a certain level [at school] that I had been aspiring to with all these incredibly advanced classical peers around me that I had been trying to be able to hang with them a little bit.

Yet has not Man wept at the sounds? And are not his tears eloquent understanding?

Failure hurts pretty bad. But when you got good people around you they remind you that failure is actually just a lesson. It's how not to walk so you don't fall again.

If someone needs help, I can offer advice. I'm not always right and people don't always listen.