“Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it.”

“I just know that there are plenty of people who are in terrible trouble and can't get out. And so I'm impatient with those who think that it's easy for people to get out of trouble.”

“Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.”

“You got troubles, I got troubles--everybody's got troubles, whether they've got a lot of money or a little money or no money. When you get right down to it, I guess love and friendship and doing good really are the big things."--"Money Talks”

“Get out of the road, you dumb motherfucker!”

“Everything is going to be unimaginably worse and is never going to get any better.”

“Humor is a way of holding off how awful life can be, to protect yourself. Finally, you get just too tired, and the news is too awful, and humor doesn't work anymore.”