I found I was repeating myself. It is the beginning of the end when you discover you have style.

When you write, you want fame, fortune and personal satisfaction. You want to write what you want to write and feel it's good, and you want this to go on for hundreds of years. You're not likely ever to get all these things, and you're not likely to give up writing and commit suicide if you don't, but that is -- and should be -- your goal. Anything else is kind of piddling.

I once knew a man who stole a Ferris Wheel.

I haven't laughed so much over anything since the hogs ate my kid brother.

Listen, Dundy, it's been a long time since I burst into tears because a policeman didn't like me.

The people who lie the most are nearly always the clumsiest at it, and they're easier to fool with lies than most people, too. You'd think they'd be on the look-out for lies, but they seem to be the very ones that will believe almost anything at all.

You got to look on the bright side, even if there ain't one.