Only against death does man cry out in vain.

Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.

Fear ringed by doubt is my eternal moon.

How, unless you drink as I do, could you hope to understand the beauty of an old Indian woman playing dominoes with a chicken?

What is man but a little soul holding up a corpse?

For a time they confronted each other like two mute unspeaking forts.

Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third.

Never think that by releasing me you will be free. You would only condemn us to an ultimate hell on earth. You would only free something else to destroy us both.

I like prefaces. I read them. Sometimes I do not read any further.

How shall the murdered man convince his assassin he will not haunt him.

Perhaps his tragedy is that he is the one normal writer left on earth and it is this that adds to his isolation and so to his sense of guilt.

Keep your thoughts clean. the life we are living soon be past.

She wanted to cause him pain for taking a place in her heart she wouldn't have given him if she'd known the truth.

We learn how to kiss, or to drink, talk to our buddies-all the things that you can't really teach in social studies or history-we all learn them at the movies.

On 24 October 1944 Planet Earth was following its orbit about the sun as it has obediently done for nearly five billion years.

I am appalled by the notion of cultural wars.

The sounds of anger are not melodic.

It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

I've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out!

Avoiding where others go wrong is an important step in achieving investment success. In fact, it almost assures it.

In order to get to the fruit of the tree, you have to go out on a limb.