America was, to them, the place that good people went to when they died. They were prepared to believe just about anything could happen in America.

Why are we talking about this good and evil? They're just names for sides. We know that.

It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism.

Loyalty was a great thing, but no lieutenants should be forced to choose between their leader and a circus with elephants.

The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.

And then he'd tried to become an official Atheist and hadn't got the rock-hard self-satisfied strength of belief even for that.

Notoriety wasn't as good as fame, but was heaps better than obscurity.

The really important thing to be was yourself, just as hard as you could.

You're Hell's Angels, then? What chapter are you from?''REVELATIONS. CHAPTER SIX.

Hell may have all the best composers, but heaven has all the best choreographers.

He wondered reflectively what would happen if you asked a nun where the Gents was. Probably the Pope sent you a sharp note or something.

The primary purpose of reading the Bible is not to know the Bible but to know God.

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

Butterflies. Everyday.

Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the business man.

It may seem that every time someone offers you a hand up, they just let go and you slip further down.

I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really messy. I'd never win painting contests. I remember losing to a guy who did a perfect Spiderman.

Let's not get too precious about it: actors are not heart surgeons or brain surgeons. We are just entertaining people.

His mouth is on me, his hands, I can't wait and he's moving, already, love, it's been so long, I'm alive in my skin, again, arms around him, falling and water softly everywhere, never-ending.

How come you don't ever hear about gruntled employees? And who has been dis-ing them anyhow?