Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

My future is righteousness.

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

It is just when people are all engaged in snooping on themselves and one another that they become anesthetized to the whole process. Tranquilizers and anesthetics, private and corporate, become the la...

It was not only colored people who praised John, since they could not, John felt, in any case really know; but white people also said it, in fact had said it first and said it still. It was when John...

Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life— the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within it— can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity in...

Or was Chris thinking, as I was, that if we went tothe police and told our story, our faces would be splashed on the frontpages of every newspaper in the country? Would the glare of publicitymake up f...

One notorious named Hiwa al-Balkhi, writing in ninth-century Persia, offered two hundred awkward questions to the faithful. He drew upon himself the usual thunderous curses—'may his name be forgotten...

It was the forty-fathom slumber that clears the soul and eye and heart, and sends you to breakfast ravening. They emptied a big tin dish of juicy fragments of fish- the blood-ends the cook had collect...

It was wrong to do this, said the angel.You should live like a flower,Holding malice like a puppy,Waging war like a lambkin.Not so, quoth the manWho had no fear of spirits;It is only wrong for angelsW...

La perfección es algo superficial. Epidérmico. Si uno rasca un poco, comienza a ver tonalidades más oscuras. Al llegar al hueso la oscuridad es total.

Leo: I can’t believe I thought you were hot. Khione’s face turned red. Hot? You dare insult me? I am cold, Leo Valdez. Very, very cold.

Make love! He disliked the phrase. Could one make love?

Mrs. Jo did not mean the measles, but that more serious malady called love, which is apt to ravage communities, spring and autumn, when winter gayety and summer idleness produce whole bouquets of enga...

NASSER: In this damn country that we hate and love, you can get anything you want. It's all spread out and availble. That's why I believe in England. You just have to know how to squeeze the tits of t...

Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.

New Rule: Someone must x-ray my stomach to see if the Peeps I ate on Easter are still in there, intact and completely undigested. And I'm not talking about this past Easter. I'm talking about the last...

She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.

She shuddered. What is it with slobbery kissers? Are they trying to drown us in spit? I mean, Jesus, swallow every now and then.