Larry McMurtry

Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.

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.

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.

Americans don't want cowboys to be gay.

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

Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic.

Self-parody is the first portent of age.

You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination.