Why don't you take a flying fuck at a rolling donut?
Poke gave him life. Ender gave it meaning.
Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty.
He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.
Old age ain't no place for sissies," actress Bette Davis"
Nothing often poses in men as wisdom. Spring
Are you mad?' Always a trickier question than it looks.
It takes courage to die for a cause, but also to live for one.
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.
No single thing abides; and all things are fucked up.
It was time for tea as it so often was.
...{A}nything worth dying for ... is certainly worth living for.
There is only one life; it is therefore perfect.
I've missed you, Frank.''I haven't breathed since you left.
Alcohol provokes stupidity; opium provokes wisdom.
You got cell phones, you got computers, you got antibiotics, medicines, hospitals. And you say the old ways are better?
A man can see by starlight, if he takes the time.
.....it's hard to describe a psychosoteric battle at close quarters..... Think of those tennis-ball firing machines, but loaded with hand-grenades trapped in a shipping container, on a ship caught in...
The weak are meat the strong do eat.
He felt awkward because she was going to murder him.
Converstations with a mother of five are education in patience.
Hate smells of burnt dead fireworks
It's not lies or anything, just truths I made up.
Endurance, after all, was a kind of victory; a kind of heroism, too.
As many truths as men. Occasionally, I glimpse a truer Truth, hiding in imperfect simulacrums of itself, but as I approach, it bestirs itself & moves deeper into the thorny swamp of dissent. Tuesday
Acting like an insider can be enough to be one.
The pieces fell into place. I fell into pieces.
The world changes. Ideologues and zealots don't.
Although personally, I think cyberspace means the end of our species.
It seemed to Jack that if an ordinary human being, his own son, no one particular, could have this purity of mind, then perhaps the isolated deeds of virtue at which people marveled in later life were...
In racy Victorian novels, beware of young widows.
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
