Some people, every now and then, simply had to have One Too Many, go drifty voiced and slouch mouthed, swimming willfully around in their own sadness as if it were hot springs.

I hate how the people who really get you are the ones you can never hold on to for very long. And the ones who don’t understand you at all stick around.

People had an illogical, self-serving rationale when it came to interpreting the behavior of others.

Not returning phone calls is the severest form of torture in the civilized world.

Always live your life with your biography in mind.

Sovereign. Deadly. Perfect.

It's a common feeling for people to feel intermittent antipathy toward individuals they're familiar with.

Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth.

He said you couldn't pretend the terrible things in life didn't happen. You can't clean it up. You keep all the refuse and the scars. It's how you learn. And try to make improvements.

Making love to Aurelia was like rummaging through a card catalog in a deserted library, searching for one very obscure, little-read entry on Hungarian poetry.

For every man there exists bait he cannot resist swallowing.

Life will fulfill your expectations.

Ganelon sighed. "Slowhand...""Never again, " Clay said. "Where you stand, I stand.

Every means hitherto employed with the intention of making mankind moral has been thoroughly immoral.

Before verse can be human again it must learn to be brutal.

In men, we various ruling passions find; In women, two almost divide the kind Those, only fixed, they first or last obey, The love of pleasure, and the love of sway.

All normal people love meat. If I went to a barbeque and there was no meat, I would say 'Yo Goober! Where's the meat?'. I'm trying to impress people here Lisa. You don't win friends with salad.

Those proud of keeping an orderly desk never know the thrill of finding something that they thought irretrievably lost.

Let the historic dissection begin. Man-made global warming is a dying market and a zombie science.

I don't know why anybody does anything in the world of television.

No one paid attention to my offense. So having 2,000 hits is one of the things that is an accomplishment.