But it is just two lovers, holding hands and in a hurry to reach their car, their locked hands a starfish leaping through the dark.

If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price.

The fullness ends when we give Nature her ransom, when we make children for her. Then she is through with us, and we become, first inside, and then outside, junk. Flower stalks.

The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don’t—whichever seems likelier to win an effect.

Momentarily drained of lust, he stares at the remembered contortions to which it has driven him. His life seems a sequence of grotesque poses assumed to no purpose, a magic dance empty of belief.

They’ve not forgotten him: worse, they never heard of him.

A Dream unfulfilled is a Nightmare.

It's good to remember…So you know you need to do now, So you know that you ain't got forever just right now, Good to remember death man.

The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, that my friends, is true perversion.

It's an honor to have been considered for the team, and I hope that in the future I will have the chance to represent my country by playing for U.S.A. Basketball.

It's a national failing to think of politics as something that goes on in Parliament. It isn't; it's something that goes on inside us.

I never imagined that so many days would ultimately make such a small life.

For she had embodied the Great Perhaps--she had proved to me that it was worth it to leave behind my minor life for grander maybes, and now she was gone and with her my faith in perhaps.

I get nervous for any competition. I also get really competitive.

Stalking the Angel [Joe]"I could off anybody in this place five times over." [Elvis]"Could you off someone and get away with you here?" [Joe]Head shake. "I'm too good even for me.

If there was a Jane Austen camp, I would go, no question.