I seem to be a long-term relationship kinda guy.
I think you have to be willing to take a bullet for somebody if you're going to stand up there, take your vows, and be married to them for the rest of your life.
If I had to choose my best day ever, my finest hour, my wildest dream come true, mine would be you.
You'll be my glass of wine I'll be your shot of whiskey
Where I live in Oklahoma, it's all ranchers. My friends are all cowboys and pretty rough guys. If I had a hot tub back there, I may as well have Richard Simmons come over and live with me.
To me, what makes an artist is a unique personality that they're not afraid to let show.
I want to stand for something, and it's probably going to be something that some people stand against.
I feel terribly vulnerable and 'not-myself' when I'm not writing.
Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are bald. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are carrotty. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are one-eyed. He who kisses you, Philaenis, sins against nature.
No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.