A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables.

Time is a gift, given to you, given to give you the time you need, the time you need to have the time of your life.

The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.

Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.

Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?

Expect everything so that nothing comes unexpected.

...it's very much like your trying to reach infinity. You know that it's there, you just don't know where-but just because you can never reach it doesn't mean that it's not worth looking for.

...it's just as bad to live in a place where what you do see isn't there as it is to live in one where what you don't see is.

We never choose which words to use, for as long as they mean what they mean to mean, we don’t care if they make sense or nonsense.

He paused again as a tear of longing rolled from cheek to lip with the sweet-salty taste of an old memory.

And some looked even more like each other than they did like themselves.

Her clear conscience mocked rumour’s mendacity, But we are a mob prone to credit sin.

He was cut from the scene like a case of the runs from a can-can routine.

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

From day one, I was already famous in my own head. It didn't take anything to make me feel that way. I know I'm totally not famous. I mean, it just depends on your perspective.

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

There is no God and that's His only commandment.

I love the expression 'makes your skin crawl,' because when you have that sensation while you're watching something, it really does.

An absence of meaning opens a gap in time.

Homes-the very idea of homeownership-evoke a strong emotional reaction in all of us.