We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.

the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.

Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.

The judgment of music, like the inspiration for it, must come slow and measured, if it comes with truth.

Haven't you lived in the South long enough to know that nothing is ever anybody's fault?

Callous greed grows pious very fast.

You are what you are. It is my opinion that trouble in the world comes from people who do not know what they are, and pretend to be something they're not.