As a former mayor, I know that local governments must have control over land use decisions.
My dressing table was willed to me, with some of my furniture.
If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
I will not cut my film because, because, because, because of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.
Then there was a kid in the neighborhood about three blocks away, his name was Bobby Beavis.
I think it's nice for women to try to be sexy for their man.
If somebody hits you with an object you should beat the hell out of them.
We've had cloning in the South for years. It's called cousins.
Each of us needs something - food, liquor, pot, whatever - to help us survive. Dracula needs blood.
Growing old's like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.
To connect with the great river we all need a path, but when you get down there there's only one river.
We live, I think, in the century of science and, perhaps, even in the century of physics.
One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.
The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.
The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.
Unquestionably, standup comedy is and has always been an art form.
I wish I could have known earlier that you have all the time you'll need right up to the day you die.
There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.