The objection to an aristocracy is that it is a priesthood without a god.

Dead yet?" Gus answered.I smirked. "Not yet, but the night's still young.""Here's hoping.

Sometimes, I have to look twice at you just to see if you’re actually real. That much beauty is dangerous.

With so much unknown in this life, how little it takes for a face, a grove of trees, an outcropping of stone to become familiar.

I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.

REVOLUTION, n. A bursting of the boilers which usually takes place when the safety valve of public discussion is closed.

In baseball, I was always in control of everything until I let the ball go.

It is harder to fight pleasure than to fight emotion.

I used to say to myself, 'What the devil have you got to be proud about, Marilyn Monroe?' And I'd answer, 'Everything, everything.'

Sight is a slick and overbearing autocrat, trumpeting its prodigal knowledge and perceptions so forcefully that it drowns out the other, subtler senses.

Love ever gives-forgives-outlives and ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogative - to give and give and give.