It's no accident that in a bureaucracy getting fired is called 'termination, ' as in ontological erasure.

I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.

The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.

It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know.

It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase.

she committed suicide by putting her extremities down the garbage disposal-first one arm and then, kind of miraculously if you think about it, the other arm.

Mary had a little lamb, its fleece electrostatic / And everywhere Mary went, the lights became erratic.

...most Substance-addicted people are also addicted to thinking, meaning they have a compulsive and unhealthy relationship with their own thinking.

This appetite to choose death by pleasure if it is available to choose - this appetite of your people unable to choose appetites, this is the death.

This is why they started us here so young: to give ourselves away before the age when the questions 'why' and 'to what' grow real beaks and claws.

We are all dying to give our lives away to something, maybe. God or Satan, politics or grammar, topology or philately (...) To games or needles, to some other person.

I can only say that I am nothing but a poor sinner, trusting in Christ alone for salvation.

Like all good mothers, she always knew the worst was going to happen and was disappointed and relieved when it finally did.

There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.

If not yet lost to all the sense of shame.

You're lucky if I watch 10 minutes of wrestling a month. Most of the time, I channel surf, and I lose interest after a few minutes.

It's impossible to expect polite behavior from people who've never witnessed it.

Perhaps the act of writing is necessary when nothing happens.

By faith we began, by hope we continue, and by revelation we shall obtain the whole.

If you are not careful, you will drown in your expectations.

Labor is the true alchemist that beats out in patient transmutation the baser metals into gold.