The first time that she spread her legs for him it had been like opening her jaws for the dentist.

Reality whistles a different tune underwater.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.

The beet is the most intense of vegetables

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful.

To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.

Sometimes, things need to change, because there just isn't any way for them to stay the same.

All words are written in the same ink, 'flower' and 'power, ' say, are much the same, and though I might write 'blood, blood, blood'all over the page, the paper would not be stainednow would I bleed.

Careful, Sandi. You're about to let your bulldog mouth overload your bird-dog bite.

Fill this city of mine with people as, You filled the river with fishes O Lord.

It's very difficult to pin down the President of the United States without subpoena powers.

I can offer you only: this world like a knife

Where else, in a non-totalitarian country, but in the political profession is the individual expected to sacrifice all-including his own career-for the national good?

You can make hell out of heaven and heaven out of hell. It's all in the mind.

If we are looking for signs of democratization, then surely we are looking as well for forms of living on equal terms in and among cultural differences.

Life is short, but its ills make it seem long.