I would never condone anything which I thought was salacious, titillating, or gratuitous..

To be alone is to be free, and freedom was the only happiness accessible to my nature..

One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance..

I say the very things that make the greatest StirAn' the most interestin' things, are things that did n't occur..

The elect, those who will; the non-elect, those who won't..

You can't always say what you'd like to say..

Science is almost totally incompatible with religion..

I tend to be really competitive when it comes to Scattergories..

Nobody ever learns anything..

Take what you got and fly with it..

I say a lot of things I shouldn't say..

The blues is life itself..

Hear the truth from whomever says it.

The Palace is a good theater, you can see from everywhere..

Women destroy me. I allow them to..

Here we are on the road. We must be going somewhere..

I like making movies..

You must choose a road for yourself..

God is good and I am always loved..

It reads better than it lives.

I read to be alone. I read so as not to be alone..