...the sun rose each morning to stare into my face with the blank but touching gaze of a lovely retarded child.

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.

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.

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.

Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.

I've tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work I have eliminated one color after another, and what has remained is gray, gray, gray!

When true hearts lie wither'd And fond ones are flown, Oh, who would inhabit This bleak world alone?

Every book is a new journey. I never felt I was an expert on a subject as I embarked on a project.

I think ambition is a desire for recognition. People want to be special. I think ambition can take in a whole package of things, power or sexual excitement.

I can assure you no whales are going to be killed today.

Our souls are prisoners of the terror of death, and the day is beautiful.

Your imagination is yours. You can remember the past you choose, rehearse the future you want, and identify with the real and fictional heroes and events of your selection.

In any dispute, each side thinks it's in the right and the other side is demons.

I never forget. I never forgive. I can wait. I find it very easy to harbor a grudge. I have scores to settle.