The problem with working, I mean not self-employed, is that you have to get up and routinely do something that you do not want to do, plus you get talked down to, ordered around by...

Writers start with a grain of sand, and then create a beach.

When you are young your body cannot handle alcohol, and when you get old your mind cannot handle it. Either way, alcohol has its way.

A woman needs a man, more than a man needs a woman. We can thank prostitutes for that.

When it comes to work, I will stop at nothing. When it comes to writing, I will never stop.

We’re closer to passing this bill than we’ve ever been before. She’s going to do everything to stop that from happening.

Most of us spend all our working life dreaming of doing nothing, then when we end up doing nothing, we long for something. When we have neither longing, I think that is what they call...

People spend half of their free time drinking alcohol and the other half watching totally sober people on television. And they want to be those people, live those lives. Ever wondered why we rarely see...

The thing about alcohol, though non-drinkers, non-alcoholics and reformed alcoholics may falsely dispute this, is that each day, or night on booze, is a different journey, the destination being a mystery, but quite possibly the...

Art corrupts. Absolute art corrupts absolutely. Please corrupt me absolutely.

Writers begin with a grain of sand, and then create a beach.

Day zero, the disaster, the serious shock, the near self-destruction.Day two, the suffering, the repentance, the depression, and the promises.Day three, the recovery, the wall, some light, and the joy.Day four, the strength, the resolution,...

Life can be at its cruelest with love and dreams. But of course they keep most of us going.

Writers should cut as close to the vein as possible. The readers don’t want to be covered in your warm sticky blood, but they want to come as close to it as possible.

It’s relatively easy to act nice and normal in front of a crowd, or in public. The tricky part is doing it in private.

Christianity fucked men and women up. Men feel guilty and women have misguided anger. The result, a weak male. Fucking controls on our behaviour. It’s like a sickness. A control sickness.

Why do I prefer cats to dogs? I have never stepped in cat shit.

Most of my girlfriends are sent by the Devil and seem genuinely bemused when I do not succumb to their powers.

Women should not be penalized for being women. Equally, men should not be penalized for being men. I fear that in overly politically correct western Christian democracies, the latter is occurring. It should not be...

Human beings are very skilled at pretending they are not what they are, and ignoring what is inside them. This includes ignoring their natural instincts, their primal instincts, because they have this notion that they...

When considering female human beings, we should ask ourselves what kind of organisms become overjoyed when presented with decapitated plants as gifts? I suppose we should consider ourselves fortunate they do not become overjoyed when...

A true heterosexual never has a problem with gay people, gay people sense he is into pussy and only into pussy. That’s why I can’t abide homophobes, deep down they fear their little secret will...

When you are gambling, though you probably do not know it, your mind is on the tide, the ebb and flow of the Universe, and there is no way to fight it. Going with the...

When I label something as fiction, people say it’s true, and when I label something as non-fiction, people say it is made up. If something is not 100% true, then I label it as fiction....

Successful long term relationships are all about power levels. A high power level male will attract and succeed with a high level power female.How do we define those power levels? We can’t, they are inherently...

A lot of the areas that are still without power, water. They’re keeping notes on napkins.

If there is a need to tap state resources, then we’ll cross that bridge. But that need is not apparent today.

The governor appoints people to boards who not only share his philosophies and his principles but who also support him as governor. And, yes, some of those people may have given him money in the...

The thing I find confusing about money is, though everyone is trying to get it, the more I have, the worse I feel. I suppose that is why I always get rid of it as...

The group heard today from a candidate who offered no concrete plans, no solutions to the education challenges that face Texas and no way to pay for the few ideas she put forward.

It is the federal government’s responsibly to secure the border, including ours, and they have not done a very good job of it. The federal government is going to have to step up.

We’re still in the very first stages of identifying and modeling business processes and IT will then map those processes to the appropriate data sources.

It’s more of a situation that we are a few weeks from a special session and that is where his focus is right now. However, this group does tend to be particularly hostile towards finding...

Gov. Perry’s opponents are in a race to see who can be the most negative and who can hate Rick Perry the most. Texas voters are not going to elect someone based on who hates...

I don’t think it was ever in concrete that there had to be 25,000 in any particular area. That is where the bulk of them were going to go, in the three major metro areas.

He mainly uses a King Air 200. If he has to go clear across state, he might charter a jet.

We have notified FEMA and Louisiana officials that we are nearing capacity.

If I only drink beer, nothing stronger, then by the end of the night I can generally recognize myself as a reasonable human being, and more importantly, wake up that way.

The governor appoints good capable men and women, who share his philosophy and his principles, to boards and commissions in state government.

Is there an area where we think we may be deficient? The answer is no. We’ll adjust and do what we need to do.

The independent auditor is appointed by the House and the Senate. The governor’s office has nothing to do with the auditor. In fact, he audits us. He is completely and totally independent.

That’s not to say it won’t happen, but for the first time in days there were not any buses.

We have numerous conversations with numerous different education stakeholders.

I cannot trust my other side, my drunken side, to act in my best interests anymore.

She will, without a doubt, try to sabotage this session any way she can because it will be to her political benefit.

[Perry has no plans to take a similar step] though the option remains on the table, … He is more concerned with reminding the federal government that securing the national borders is a federal, not...

Britain and America never thought Libya would accept it. It would look good from a public relations perspective but there was no hope in hell that Libya would accept it.

If that pressure valve has been turned off, if you will, then that is a positive development. It still may be necessary, depending on what happens with the shelters, people just showing up. It’s still...

He has supported across-the-board pay raises for teachers and incentive pay in the past, but the funding mechanism for our schools must be addressed first.

We don’t know where, we don’t know a timetable yet.