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

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.

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.

It's difficult being an intellectual in a bread and butter sort of town.

instead of being obsessed with watching greatness i'd rather do greatness

Tawakkul is having complete trust that Allah's plan is the best plan.

If you really want to be successful in the business, you have to make that your priority, above family and everything else. It takes up every minute of your life.

Good brands do three things for highly stressed out consumers: 1. They save time. 2. They project the right message. 3. They provide an identity.

Why make disciples? Because heaven and hell exist, and the end of the world is coming.

In this ridiculously polarized, obstructionist world, the operating principle should be, Let's get something done. Not, Let's freeze everything.

I look back over my shoulder and feel the presence of an intense young girl and then a volatile and disturbed young woman, both with high dreams and restless, romantic aspirations

I couldn't care less about business.

Everything I read about me is what I say. The way I've come across is exactly who I am. So far, they haven't skewed it to be one way or another too much.