Those that can be troubled to muse upon the meaning of life are general disappointed when they figure it out.

The best plans are always the simplest.

Marriage is an honorable estate and should not be used simply as an excuse for legal intercourse.

Now and again. Good residency is about having the power to ask someone to do something, but not necessarily exercising it.

The very possibility of death focuses the mind wonderfully.

Chromatacia…society…ruled by a colortocracy…social hierarchy based upon one's limited color perception, society is dominated by color. In this world, you are what you can see.

The sky was like ebony and the only illumination was the harsh white light of the central streetlamp, which cast shadows so hard it seemed you might cut yourself on them.

…although her mouth uttered fond words, her eyes spoke only venom.

For myself, I favored the abstract. I collected not just obsolete terms and words, but ideas.

Another one of your quippy japes?

7. 3. 12. 31. 208: Reckless disrespect of the lightless hours will not be tolerated.

No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake....

Yes, ” I whisper so the others won’t hear, “but being afraid is good because it means I still have more to lose.

Happiness is a beautiful smile.

If you start to take Vienna take Vienna.

Man is the only 150 pound nonlinear servomechanism that can be wholly reproduced by unskilled labor.

A bluff taken seriously is more useful than a serious threat interpreted as a bluff.

In confusing stock options with ownership, corporations confuse trappings with substance.

The speech of my heart will be carried on in murmurings of a song.

Snakes are just very instinctive to me. I've been playing with snakes since before I could walk. It doesn't matter where or what it is, from the biggest to the most venomous.

Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.