Anyway, whacking a surly bartender ain't much of a crime.

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.

At the bottom of freshly dug holes, I bury my problems alongside the waxen seeds.

I have no desire to carry a movie.

There was nothing separate about her days. Like drops on the window-pane, they ran together and trickled away.

I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life.

Leave him! I said. I never mean to. I am going with him, if he climbs to the Moon; and if any of these Black Riders try to stop him, they'll have Sam Gamgee to reckon with, I said. They laughed.

65% of people say that cheating on your income tax is worse than cheating on your spouse. The other 35% were women.

I can count on one hand the number of people who wrote me a thank you letter after having an interview, and I gave almost all of them a job.

In the American Metaphysical, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant.

Learning to code is the single best thing anyone can do to get the most out of the amazing future in front of us.

Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.