True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriend - and he accepts it

No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start.

I make my share of mistakes, but one I never make is to underestimate the power of things. People imbued from childhood with the myth of the primacy of feeling seldom like to admit they really want things as much as they might want love, but my career has convinced me that plenty of them do. And some want things a lot worse than they want love.

Nobody run off with her,” Roscoe said. "She just run off with herself, I guess.

Mystery is underrated, and understanding is overrated.

True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriend - and he accepts it

You can scare off a lot of cowboys just by looking mean, I guess.