Sex, drugs, and insanity have always worked for me, but I wouldn't recommend them for everyone.

I guess I'm just courtly until people get in my way. You'll find most Southerners are like that.

There is not much mental distance between a feeling of having been screwed and the ethic of total retaliation, or at least the kind of random revenge that comes with outraging the public decency.

Without gambling, I would not exist.

On some nights, I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.

He wandered into the Newsroom and asked for a job the same way he’d walk into a barbershop and ask for a haircut, and with no more idea of being turned down.

A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.