Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.
Poke gave him life. Ender gave it meaning.
Why don't you take a flying fuck at a rolling donut?
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
It was time for tea as it so often was.
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.
A man can see by starlight, if he takes the time.
...{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.
.....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...
You got cell phones, you got computers, you got antibiotics, medicines, hospitals. And you say the old ways are better?
Converstations with a mother of five are education in patience.
The weak are meat the strong do eat.
Endurance, after all, was a kind of victory; a kind of heroism, too.
He felt awkward because she was going to murder him.
In racy Victorian novels, beware of young widows.
Hate smells of burnt dead fireworks
It's not lies or anything, just truths I made up.
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
I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I want you to try things that no one has ever tried because they're absolutely stupid.
Acting like an insider can be enough to be one.
The pieces fell into place. I fell into pieces.
Your ego-depletion seems problematically difficult to assuage.
absence of proof is not proof of absence. I
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....
