You weren't thinking and you weren't paying attention either. People who don't pay attention often get stuck in the Doldrums.

Time is a gift, given to you, given to give you the time you need, the time you need to have the time of your life.

The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.

Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.

A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables.

Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?

Expect everything so that nothing comes unexpected.

...it's very much like your trying to reach infinity. You know that it's there, you just don't know where-but just because you can never reach it doesn't mean that it's not worth looking for.

...it's just as bad to live in a place where what you do see isn't there as it is to live in one where what you don't see is.

We never choose which words to use, for as long as they mean what they mean to mean, we don’t care if they make sense or nonsense.

He paused again as a tear of longing rolled from cheek to lip with the sweet-salty taste of an old memory.

Human history seems to me to be one long story of people sweeping down—or up, I suppose—replacing other people in the process.

Charlie had kissed a lot of guys. And Connor's kiss had been the best ever. Ever, ever, ever.

Mardi Gras is the love of life. It is the harmonic convergence of our food, our music, our creativity, our eccentricity, our neighborhoods, and our joy of living. All at once.

Fortunately, I'm in a band with people who really like and respect each other personally.That makes this whole experience so much better.

Come on soldiers! Guardians and agents of the supreme law! Here is a sacrifice of dogs ready for your swords!

I really wanted to get out of England.

Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.

I've come to realize that companionship and mild competition can help build quality and lay the ground for excellence.

One single word and I swear I’ll rip your tongue out. (Zephyra)

[Footnote:]Each male has from 2 to 790 females with whom he discusses current events. Of these he marries from 3 to 17.