The desire to remake that shrinking expanse of life they were still allotted, to make use of it, to fill it up with possibility. Oh please: one more transformation.

A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking.

Even when our death is imminent, we carry the image of ourselves moving forward, alive, into the future.

It had occurred to him that if the undead don't realize that they are dead, he might easily be one of them himself.

You want a child because it is a link in the bridge that you are building between the past and the future, a cantilever that holds you, so that you are not alone.

You could say that they were sweet, or you could say that they were something out of a horror movie.

I guess, " says Deagle, finally, "I'll just have a pack of Marlboro Lights. That's what I used to smoke when I was human.

You really romanticize the white-trash period of your life, ' Rain once said to me, which I thought was a little hurtful but perhaps true.

The best self help book I've ever read was, The little Engine that Could.

Do not prove but be yourself.

The City is free of sinThe snow has given it absolution A man who slips A horse that fallsOh no, the city is in a nightgown

My favorite chip trick is to make everyone's chip stack disappear.

Lust is the base of most physical ills, and like a tapeworm in the system, it feeds on our best energies and vitality.

Though it be a thrilling and marvellous thing to be merely young and gifted in such times, it is doubly so - doubly dynamic - to be young, gifted and black.

Unhappily, no man exists who has not in his own person become, to some amount, a stockholder in the sin, and so made himself liable to a share in the expiation.

Since I left basketball, and my wife, it's been a glorious feast of lovemaking.

People are not really that forgiving when they pay for tickets to come see you and you don't show up.