I'm sure partial to the evening,' Augustus said. 'The evening and the morning. If we just didn't have to have the rest of the dern day I'd be a lot happier.

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.

Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artist's career.

I have a mental illness, but that doesn't stop me from being mentally capable.

I am the King of Rome and above grammar.

And all was black and still, and black and cold, and black and dead, and black.

When growing up, I saw segregation. I saw racial discrimination. I saw those signs that said white men, colored men. White women, colored women. White waiting. And I didn't like it.

The Yankee is one who, if he once gets his teeth set on a thing, all creation can't make him let go.

I don't know whether schooling would have helped me get farther along in music at this time. I doubt it would have.

Water is free of charge. Why then do people drink Evian?

A place where we all go can't be bad.

Silence is the perfectest herault of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much.