If I'm a lousy writer, then an awful lot of people have lousy taste.

Nude is a word as smoooth as your hips ... but naked has the sound of a rock being turned over to expose maggots.

Dead folks can't hurt you none. It's the ones that are alive, you have to watch out for.

There can be neither beauty, nor trust, nor security between a man and a woman if there is not truth.

Didn't you ever notice how it's always people who wish they had somethin' or had done somethin' that hate the hardest?

I have seldom, if ever, seen money and gentleness go hand in hand.

The public loves to create a hero....Sometimes I think they do it for the sheer joy of knocking him down from the highest peak. Like a child who builds a house of blocks and then destroys it with one vicious kick.