Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
You might be a redneck if. . . you bought a VCR so you could tape wrestling while you are at work.
You know you're a redneck if your home has wheels and your car doesn't.
Did you know babies are nauseated by the smell of a clean shirt? You put on something from the cleaners, they're gonna spit up just like that. My wardrobe looks like we have condors living in our yard.
A lot of people up North, they think everybody from the South is married to their sister and has seen a UFO. I told them, 'I'm just dating my sister and couldn't swear that it wasn't a weather balloon. '
Watching a baby being born is a little like watching a wet St. Bernard coming in through the cat door.
If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty. '
I didn't feel that way about it. I had been playing with death for some time. I can't say we were the best of friends but we were well acquainted.
Why would you expect people who don't know any history to be able to report on history? Why would you expect people who are shallow and report only today's exciting story, to be followed by tomorrow's exciting story, to have any sense of depth or any sense of background?
The boys that were running away from America because they didn't want to get involved with the Vietnam War had come to me. They would tell me how they felt.
It is more important for you to be safe than right, for the time being. Understand? (. . . ) But please, when you see an opportunity. . . ruin them