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

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.

Consideration touches more deeply and longer than passion.

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

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.

When you lose someone and it hurts, that's when you know the love was real.

I spend a lot of time imagining things - in fact, you could say that imagining things is my job.

Pray in your family daily, that yours may be in the number of the families who call upon God.

Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest.

I don't believe in hours and hours of meditation. The mind gets tired and starts to fold in on itself.

I've seen the future and it's murder.

But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith.

War was never so careful as to inflict suffering only where it was merited.

Changing the legal standard creates a slippery slope...plural marriage. The court opened up a pandora's box by doing that.

I want the President to look across the country and find the best man woman or minority that he can find