It didn't take a synthetic mind to decipher Caleb Shepperd, just a human one." ~ #1001

But there’s nothing.My life is one big meaningless cycle of nothingness.

Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as little as possible, over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the State.

OPERA, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures and no postures but attitudes.

When you left on Saturday, I felt a horrible void, I saw you everywhere, on the beach, in your room, in the garden: impossible for me to get used to the idea that you had left.

There aren't any embarrassing questions — just embarrassing answers.

I tried every diet under the sun and none of them worked but, more importantly, they were robbing me of my love of food.

I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.

Most people would agree that the details matter when it faces the user. But where the real debate is on things that don't face the user.

No one in their right mind would turn down the contracts I've been offered.

Nice criticism is good when it tells you something. A lot of negative "criticism" isn't criticism at all: it's just nasty, "writerly" cliché and invective.