I'm glad I've been wrong enough to keep in practice. . . You can't avoid it, you've got to learn to handle it. If you only come face to face with your own mistakes once or twice in your life it's bound to be extra painful. I face mine every day--that way they ain't usually much worse than a dry shave.

Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas without eating a chicken fried steak.

Mystery is underrated, and understanding is overrated.

I'm sure partial to the evening,' Augustus said. 'The evening and the morning. If we just didn't have to have the rest of the dern day I'd be a lot happier.

Uva uvum vivendo varia fit

... people are always turning out to be tougher than I think they are.

Nothing good ever comes without a price.