Maybe the trying is the thing. Maybe it doesn't get better than that. Maybe you never quite get there. And maybe that's okay.

The truth will set you free. Unless you're guilty.

Deep down, everyone wants the truth.

A jealous husband is an ugly thing.

What was it about not knowing a person that allowed you to wonder whether she might be the answer to all your problems?

The irrational thoughts were the ones with the power to burn holes in your gut.

The good guys had to operate on a higher level than the killers--just for society to keep track of who was who.

What about my rights? What about a person's privacy? Did all that just go to hell after 9/11?

Nothing overdone, nothing racy, which made her all the more alluring.

But I don't think Art's an Einstein - he likes tugging ears, biting people and burping too much to be a genius.

Exist outside but live and rest within...

The earth is not just for the clever and the strong.

No zone have a perfect Family, but my Family is perfect for Me

The rain could turn to gold and still your thirst would not be slaked. Desire is unquenchable or it ends in tears, even in heaven.

Roger, Tranquility. We copy you on the ground. You've got a bunch of guys about to turn blue. We're breathing again. Thanks a lot.

A writer's self-consciousness, for which he is much scorned, is really a mode of interestedness, that inevitably turns outward.

All Juleps are made for present use, and therefore it is in vain to speak of their duration.

You must exercise your caution in laying your plans, but be bold in carrying them out.

As Meander says, "For our mind is God;" and as Heraclitus, "Man's genius is a deity."