Destroying oneself, he thought ruefully, should always be done at a deliberate pace.

He suddenly saw the enterprise of literature as essentially mad.

Original sin is a very commercial idea, ” said Duyckinck. “How do you think the Bible stays in print year after year?

Melville to Hawthorne: "In your stories, you seem to understand that the dramatic moments come not when a character must choose between right and wrong buy when he must choose between two wrongs.

Going to the gym at this odd hour didn't 'work out' for me.

The essence of all experience is Rasa – Bliss.

Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse.

A garlic caress is stimulating. A garlic excess soporific.

I am looking for an honest man.

Chicken, yeah, that's me. I'd rather fight an old rogue-vamp in my underwear, with my bare hands, than deal with relationship problems.

I have never pressurized a producer to do me any favor.

I consider myself normal. I've spent 20 years in the pool. I consider that something that's normal.

While everyone else is in the spa, im gonna shower because im Tom Daley

It is a good divine that follows his own instructions.