Pride is a wound and vanity is the scab on it. One's life picks at the scab to open that wound again and again. Among men it seldom heals and often grows septic.

Pride is a wound, and vanity is the scab on it. One's life picks at the scab to open the wound again and again. In men, it seldom heals and often grows septic.

Smartass Disciple: Master, I don’t need a fairytale.I need you to tell me the truth. Master of Stupidity: It is not funny if you just found it. No drama if no lost at first.

I've come to realize that hunger feels more like home than any tangible structure ever has, or probably ever will. I know now that creating absence is my way of coping with absence.

O hard, when love and duty clash!

Pick yourself up when you're feeling down. No one else is likely to.

The world is a very complicated place, as babies know.

Barack Obama may be black, but John McCain is the first Albino presidential candidate: he's completely see-through!

In our long and obsessive passion for youth, we have - more than any other modern society - avoided direct approach to age and to dying by denying them in word, in fact, and - above all - in worth.

All statements are true, if you are free to redefine their terms.

I got 27 people livin in my head and all of them was about to beat the heck out of you for doin that.