I wonder if we climb to heaven over the ruins of many cherished schemes.

Charm is the enchanted dart, light and subtle as a hummingbird. But it is deceptive in one thing: like a sense of humor, if you think you've got it, you probably haven't.

...appetite turns common food into the fare of kings.

I want the privilege of guiding the arrows of my children and giving them the exhortations that can shoot them into the high place.

It isn't fair that there's pressure exerted on those who choose to live on the edges of the bell-shaped curve of normal.

When lost, I look for gas stations for counsel.

The way of surviving is to find meaning in suffering.

Life and death in a relationship depend on attitudes.

Plans can be like a winged horse, but their execution plods along pulling carts.

Marriage is the learning of someone else's habits.

(Home) is you in things.

We've had characters like Trump in American politics forever, characters who trade on xenophobia.

I would rather be whole than good.

I think I will just use guitar as backing. I'm not doing a traditional folk thing, but a contemporary thing-my own version of folk, if you like.

Give me lust, baby. Flash. Give me malice. Flash. Give me detached existentialist ennui. Flash. Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism. Flash.

death is always sudden however long one waits.

Gillard is as likeable as Rudd is charmless. She is self-deprecating; he is ludicrously vainglorious. She is a mistress of understatement; he is a ranter.

A cigarette is the only consumer product which when used as directed kills its consumer.

At the end of it all, it's my little movie library, and you see aspects of me through that.

The allies we gain by victory will turn against us upon the bare whisper of our defeat.

Our purpose in founding the city was not to make any one class in it surpassingly happy, but to make the city as a whole as happyas possible.