celebratin' New Year's Eve is like eatin' oranges. You got to let go your dignity t' really enjoy 'em.

Take Texas the way Texas takes bourbon. Straight. It goes down easier.

America -- rather, the United States -- seems to me to be the Jew among the nations. It is resourceful, adaptable, maligned, envied, feared, imposed upon. It is warm-hearted, over-friendly; quick-witted, lavish, colorful; given to extravagant speech and gestures; its people are travelers and wanderers by nature, moving, shifting, restless; swarming in Fords, in ocean liners; craving entertainment; volatile. The chuckle among the nations of the world.

celebratin' New Year's Eve is like eatin' oranges. You got to let go your dignity t' really enjoy 'em.

It's terrible to realize that you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die; and, then it's too late.

I think that in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion.

There is an interesting resemblance in the speeches of dictators, no matter what country they may hail from or what language they may speak.