The dollar bills attached to her hips fluttered to the rug of the small square stage, like the first flakes of winter in the Bronx. (Dark City Lights)

God said to Faldo, as He once said to Nicklaus, "You will have the skills like no other." Then he whispered to Ballesteros, as he whispered to Palmer, "But they will love you more."

Only a few millionaires with wet bottoms were very disappointed.

The America's Cup, yachting's great and garish grail, is a tumorous tureen no handsomer than a camel.

Every day I grow in the wisdom that my soul is vibrationally connected to the Universe.

He checked his parachute and launched himself into the Sea of Sarcasm.--Havana Red

There are only three great powers in the universe: God in heaven, the pope in the Vatican and Dadá in the great box.

Though we disagree, we should not be disagreeable.

If you want to know what your thoughts were like in the past, look at your body today. If you want to know what your body will look like in the future, look at your thoughts today.

Fear can be a great motivator, just not during foreplay.

Reading is such a personal thing to me. I'd much rather give someone a gift certificate to a bookstore, and let that person choose his or her own books.

Pass the popcorn, please. Life is a film, theatre, a theatre of the soul. We play different roles on different stages. At death, we walk offstage. At birth, we walk onstage.

Everything goes so fast that you wake up suddenly after 5 years and you just feel like you want to talk about different [things] than everybody in the group, you want to talk about your own things.

I always ask the question, "Is this what I want in my life?