I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don't want to be some stress casualty in early middle age.

When I hold you in my arms and I feel my finger on your trigger I know no one can do me no harm because happiness is a warm gun.

John Lennon

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.

John Updike

You speak of Lord Byron and me there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.

John Keats

As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against 'em anyway, you don't belong in office.

Molly Ivins

Religion and education are no match for evil without the grace of God.

B. R. Hayden

Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of man.

Francis Bacon

When I was in high school I used to sit by myself in the cafeteria - not necessarily by choice - but I thought it was funny to talk to people that weren't there.

Zach Galifianakis

No one is wise or safe, but they that are honest.

Sir Walter Raleigh

Alcohol is the cause and the solution to many of life's problems.

Dan Castellaneta

What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid.

Robin G. Collingwood

I was gone so much in my first marriage. I love the moments when I engage with my youngest daughter now. It's not my thing to sit on the ground and play tea party, but I'll do it because it's a moment that will stick with me forever.

Tim Allen

There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.A Libertarian Movement slogan

Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is