Consideration touches more deeply and longer than passion.

Lady bartenders live a tougher life than anybody knows.

Home is where you hang your hangover.

I try to stay two drinks ahead of reality and three behind a drunk

I had done either too much coke or too little, a constant problem in my life.

There's no accounting for laws. Or the changes wrought by men and time.

I have learned some things. Modern life is warfare without end: take no prisoners, leave no wounded, eat the dead--that's environmentally sound.

Youth endures all things, kings and poetry and love. Everything but time.

...the sun rose each morning to stare into my face with the blank but touching gaze of a lovely retarded child.

Maybe I will go to Paris. Who knows? But I’ll sure as hell never Go back to Texas again

The only person more cynical than a drunk is a reformed drunk.

Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears.

Know what an optimist is, Major? A pessimist without much experience.

There is no such thing as bravery only degrees of fear.

Superman and Robinhood are still alive in Hollywood.

I had to stop going to auditions thinking, 'Oh, I hope they like me.' I had to go in thinking I was the answer to their problem.

Any truth, no matter how valid, if emphasized to the exclusion of other truths of equal importance, is practical error.

Treat your life like something to be sculpted.

I’m waiting for my princess to come I just have to be patient.

I've always just wanted to earn my living by writing. The best thing is to go into my study in the morning and stay there and put words together.

Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.