Larry McMurtry

True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriends - and he accepts it.

One of the things that Ang brings to all of his projects is his deep sense of being a double exile, an outsider's outsider.

No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start.

I go in the butchers and there's not a lot of meat I can eat these days, with having all the animals.

Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.

What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta down to Texas I've known women like that: good common sense, bright and vilified by city people.