Coffee, unless it is very good and made by somebody else, is pretty intolerable at any time.

It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.

Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.

I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.

The moment you realize your eyes hurt not because of rubbing them, but because of the tears you wasted, on him.

How do you explain to your friend's mother why a night out with friends has left her daughter dying from an ecstasy overdose?

All my life, the library has always been one of my favorite places to go. (Larry Brown: A Writer's Life by Jean W. Cash)

A home is more than just where you live it reflects who you are.

Don't treat your customers like a bunch of purses and wallets.

...she is too beautiful, I think, to not be inherently evil.

Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity.

There are people who think death a fate worse than boredom.

I try to win every tournament.

We are into the opening stages of a human-caused biotic holocaust-a wholesale elimination of species-that could leave the planet impoverished for at least five million years.