Pastoral Resources

Oh, I see people everywhere. Some are celebs, but most of my friends are just regular people. The thing is, even celebs are normal people too. Just people.

The only way that we can reduce our financial dependence on the inflow of funds from the rest of the world is to reduce our trade deficit.

We went with the St. Lawrence Experience, which is run by Joe Babbitt, who is a close friend now. We went out there for 10 days and we had the best week of our lives, and we've been going back since. We've been back three times now.

Well, my closest friends are still the ones that I went to school with, but it's nice to go to work, at the studios, and have people there that you're willing to talk to and have a good conversation with.

Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

He's by best friend and the father of my children. He's a great ex.

Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.

You are running to seek your friend. Let your feet run, but your mind need not.

Saul Bellow never took my advice when he was my friend.

I gave up writing blurbs because you make one friend and 200 enemies.

One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends.

The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts.

Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.

A songwriter should have friends who are similarly interested; should move about in the milieu of work he has chosen for himself.

It's always good to go against your friends, especially when you come out victorious.

You come on as a guest. You don't get the girl anymore. But that is our lives. You start off as the boyfriend, then you are the lover, then you are the husband, then you are the father, and then you are the grandfather.

My girlfriend and I rented a nice house on the river and I was there for about two and a half months, and we were just out of Alabama. I hardly got to see Alabama.

I think it's quite extraordinary that people cast me as if I'm Warren Beatty: until I met my present wife, at the age of 35, you could name two girlfriends.

I crashed my boyfriend's birthday when I was 12 years old. He didn't invite me and so I showed up.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.