Death and the end of one's life are two very different things indeed.

I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz.

Two minds with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.

Defiance through compliance.

Love is a wonderful thing, my dear, but it leaves you wide open for blackmail.

The cucumber and the tomato are both fruit; the avocado is a nut. To assist with the dietary requirements of vegetarians, on the first Tuesday of the month a chicken is officially a vegetable.

Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head.

If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.

I collect ex-boyfriends -- and more than five, at last count.

If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher.

Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isn"t what it used to be?

My point, continued Rhy, is for every ten that worship you, one wants to see you burn. Those are simply the odds when it comes to people like you and I.

I’m not sentimental about anything. Life flows by, and you flow with it or you don’t. Move on and move out.

I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man.

The nobility of our calling will always be rooted in two commitments difficult to observe: refusal to lie about what we know, and resistance to oppression.

The war is waged against its own subjects and its object is not the victory...but to keep the very structure of society intact.

You are never bereft of your inner guidance.

Obama is to the Tea Party as the moon is to werewolves.

It's always nice when people appreciate your work because it means you've affected them, which is great. And so that feels good.

All real difficulty stems from no responsibility. Full responsibility is not fault; it is recognition of being cause.

A 'conservative believer' must be someone who believes that Jesus was truly human as well as truly divine.