Her lips were like large crimson polyps.

Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.

And the rest is rust and stardust.

Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.

Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars.

Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.

The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.

There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.

The road to success doesn't allow detours

Just remember, everything should be EXACTLY as it is. Not better, not worse." - L. R. W. Lee

As to a media personality, well that just happened in large measure because people found me amusing, and I did lots and lots of T.V. news interview shows.

Sometimes I think all the trouble in the world is caused by men. If there were no men, women would always be happy. ~Carrie

Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, Suffering, yet hoping all things.

Drug therapies are replacing a lot of medicine as we used to know it.

Space we can recover; time never.

Snatching happiness takes a lot more courage than enduring unhappiness

Who makes and keeps the Jew or the Negro base, who but you, who exclude them from the rights which others enjoy?

One makes a trip by day, but by night one sets out on a journey.