It had ever, as I told the reader, been one of the singular blessings of my life, to be almost every hour of it miserably in love with some one....

What the hell kind of Hell was this supposed to be?

You are the master of your emotions and you and only you have the power to control them external and internal.

The first reaction to truth is hatred.

'Jerry Springer' is just kind of the chubby, redneck version of throwing Christians to the lions.

No one, no one has hit the FARC harder than I have.

If you look on the history of art you observe how the most popular forms trample the rest. The abstract expressionists destroyed figurative work for more than 30 years.

I'd rather go to sleep than find a girl.

She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy I said 'Be careful his bowtie is really a camera'

Something was dead in each of us, and what was dead was hope

Never, dear gods. Never mess with mortals.