I begin to suspect that the world is divided not only into the happy and the unhappy, but into those who like happiness and those who, odd as it seems, really don't.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

I know lots of people who are educated far beyond their intelligence.

It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.

There's no such thing as being too Southern.

The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.

Baptists never make love standing up. They're afraid someone might see them and think they're dancing.

It's better to have died a small child than to be a politician who gets caught in a scandal during a slow news month.

You call to a dog and a dog will break its neck to get to you. Dogs just want to please. Call to a cat and its attitude is, 'What's in it for me?'

Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity, in the many ways in which such violation is possible.

The hardest part of the show is saying goodbye when it's all done. It really breaks you.

I don't really do anything that isn't about writing, and I don't really know who I am if I'm not thinking about writing.

Stay with me; I want to be alone

To know that which lies before us in daily life is the prime wisdom.

Obviously, there are lots of lessons to be learned on a first movie.

Truth. It feels cool, like water washing over my sticky-hot body. Cooling a heat that's been burning me up all my life. Truth, I say inside my head again, just for that feeling.

He had never even glimpsed her.

Imagine that it’s not about the self and its concerns, about ‘what’s in it for me,’ whether that be a blessed afterlife or prosperity in this life.

Free-diving is all about dealing with anxiety. I've blacked out a few times. I've had big black-outs.