So don't applaud. Just send me the check.

I've made my peace with myself.

If you're going to be a bum, be the biggest. If you're going to blow it, blow it big.

I'm what you call a deathbed Catholic.

I get a wild hair up my nose and I want to go.

I collect antiques. Why? Because they're beautiful.

When people tell you they saw your last picture - well, the way they say it sounds like they hope it was.

I'm too young for Medicare and too old for broads to care.

I was always the second heavy.

I have a jaundiced eye but a young mind.

I want to make someone walk straight, but I've left my sons nothing but wars.

I've made upwards of a million bucks in the cops-and-robbers business.

My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother.

I only go to mass when somebody asks me, but when I get in trouble I call for a priest.

I'm a lousy reader.

So don't applaud. Just send me the check.

It's hard to explain why I like Europe so much.

If youre going to be a bum be the biggest. If youre going to blow it blow it big.

Well, I was fourteen in Texas. But I looked twenty-five.

People don't associate red hair, pale skin, and freckles with beauty.

Most people’s religion is what they want to believe, not what they do believe.

I'm not a person who naturally loves to wake up in the morning and go 'Yeah, I'm going to work out for five hours - wooh!' Like, that's not my thing. I'm from Texas. I like to eat carbs. I like to chill out with my friends and do anything but 150 push-ups and sit-ups.

Privacy isn't negotiable. It's the right of every American.

I'm a big Justin Bieber fan. I've been a Justin Bieber fan. I've been listening to his music. OG, you know. That's also my friend, too, so, you know. It's just one of those things. We've been supporting each other's music for a long, long, long time.

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

Valor is superior to number.

Neglect is enough to ruin a man; a man who is in business need not commit forgery or robbery to ruin himself; he has only to neglect his business, and his ruin is certain.

On street corners everywhere, people are looking at their cell phones, and it's easy to dismiss this as some sort of bad trend in human culture. But the truth is life is being lived there. When they smile - right, you've seen people stop - all of a sudden, life is being lived there, somewhere up in that weird, dense network.

But compared to writing a novel, where you can be God, I did the Bay of Pigs invasion in six pages once, and there were 50,000 guys with boots that I didn't have to pay, and all those extras; we didn't have to pay them.

I like wearing things that are a bit off but not in a ridiculous 'I'm wearing a huge hat' kind of way. More a socks with sandals way.

The lanterns filled the sky, pulsing with the harmonious light of fireflies, and a great host of ghosts departed from the earth to join them. The higher they rose into the zenith of the heavens, the further night was chased back, until a great and radiant being resumed its throne in the sky.

My first novel, 'John Crow's Devil,' freed me up to write about the past, and 'The Book of Night Women' freed me up to have a book totally based on voice and being very spontaneous.

I wanted to be the kind of woman who would attract a certain kind of man that I could respect. That was my thinking. It had to do with the kind of couple I would be a part of.

It was both fascinating and appalling to learn that chimpanzees were capable of hostile and territorial behavior that was not unlike certain forms of primitive human warfare.

It is the child's understanding that teaches the adults the way of the future. They're still doing it today with modern technology.

Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else.

Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy.

This city has many public squares, in which are situated the markets and other places for buying and selling.

All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.

I've changed my whole angle for dance. I'm moving towards moving back rather than hanging out with my peers. I'm reaching back to older dudes for a second.

Once in a while, when I'm out on the lawn, I'll jump around and do a couple of things. Here's a secret: The older you get, the more difficult it gets. The smallest little injury stays with you for so long. But that's how it goes, and it doesn't stop me. I'm always ready to do something that hurts a little!

I went out there for a thousand a week, and I worked Monday, and I got fired Wednesday. The guy that hired me was out of town Tuesday.