“I didn’t come here and I ain’t leavin’.”

There’s a freedom you begin to feel the closer you get to Austin, Texas.

I’ve known straight and gay people all my life. I can’t tell the difference. But I’d never marry a guy I didn’t like.

Air you breathe is bad for your lungs so you’ve got to careful and don’t overdue any bad air. Too much pot, too much anything is not good. Your lung is a piece of flesh, a piece of bone. You can injure it.

Ninety-nine percent of the world’s lovers are not with their first choice. That’s what makes the jukebox play.

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.

I think it is just terrible and disgusting how everyone has treated Lance Armstrong, especially after what he achieved winning seven Tour de France races while on drugs. When I was on drugs I couldn’t even find my bike.

I been a long time leaving but I’m going to be a long time gone.

I never pretended to have a great voice. It works and I can carry a tune. If you have a good song, that’s about all that’s required.

Little things I should have said and done I just never took the time You were always on my mind.

When you’re singing, you’re using extra muscles, and it requires a lot of exercise and breathing. You can’t do that if you’re a sissy. If I have any fitness advice for people, I’d tell them to sing more. It’s good therapy, too.

When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.

I believe that all roads lead to the same place – and that is wherever all roads lead to.

If you’ve made your own hell, then only you have the power to escape it.

As adults we try to relax from the never-ending quest for reason and order by drinking a little whiskey or smoking whatever works for us, but the wisdom isn’t in the whiskey or the smoke. The wisdom is in the moments when the madness slips away and we remember the basics.

As adults we try to relax from the never-ending quest for reason and order by drinking a little whiskey or smoking whatever works for us, but the wisdom isn’t in the whiskey or the smoke. The wisdom is in the moments when the madness slips away and we remember the basics.

There are more old drunks than there are old doctors.

The worse feeling is when someone makes you feel special, then suddenly leaves you hanging, and you have to act like you don’t care at all.

Don’t cry for a man who’s left you, the next one may fall for your smile.

Sometimes I wonder will God ever forgive us for what we’ve done to each other? Then I look around and I realize God left this place a long time ago.

The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.

Uninvited guests are often most welcome when they leave.

A wise girl kisses but doesn’t love, listens but doesn’t believe, and leaves before she is left.

Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.

Even though we may all become extinct, we can still leave our footprint in the sand.