It's not a crime to get drunk.

I AM a male chauvinist. Who's been saying otherwise?

Apparently we love our own cell phones but we hate everyone else's.

Everything changed in Bosnia, when General Wesley Clark proved that you could fight a war with high- level precision air strikes and a bare minimum of ground action.

Discourse is fleeting, but junk mail is forever.

A universal draft is most often the instrument of Third World dictators.

As I've said many times, the single most oppressed class in America right now is the teenager.

The best ally you can have in breaking up a street fight is a grandmother.

The fifties were when people started coming down on "juvenile delinquents," "hoodlums," "vandals"--anybody that was young, wore a motorcycle jacket, and didn't act polite around older people.

Faith is like a kernel of wheat.

You're not a real Texan till you've been kicked out of every decent state in America.

All I know is this: nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down.

The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.

Timing was everything when it came to being a woman—the moment you entered the world could seal your fate.

I think of making love and making art as being very parallel. Even the most amateur attempt can be thrilling.

I’d given up on the white picket fence after Kisten had died—finding out my kids would be demons was the nail in the coffin.

This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun.

The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance.

If I'm going to take my clothes off I figured I might as well do it for something that I'm directing myself since I had complete control of the edit.

Hate generalizes; love specifies. Or: The movements of hatred are toward generalization; love's movements are toward specification.

Never cross a woman with a star on a stick, young lady. They've got a mean streak.