Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Cock your hat - angles are attitudes.

It's not the sex you think i've had. it's the sex i want. that's what you smell on me. because the more i look at you, the more i know about us both.and the more i want to have sex with you. because t...

Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

She nudged his arm to wash under it, where his dark hair grew in a swirl.Where the scent of his masculinity was the strongest.She shouldn't find this erotic. A lady shouldn't find this erotic.And yet...

It has always been dangerous to institutionalize hope, and we no longer live in a society in which we will be allowed to institutionalize memory.

If it be true that there can be no metaphysics transcending human reason, it is no less true that there can be no empirical knowledge that is not already caught and limited by the a priori structure o...

I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one-half his days and mad the other.

During the Bosnian war in the late 1990s, I spent several days traveling around the country with Susan Sontag and her son, my dear friend David Rieff. On one occasion, we made a special detour to the...

Behind them, across the hall, the dancers shattered their roses on the floor, and Aedion grinned at his queen as the entire world went to hell.

Success means: I want to know the work I do means something to somebody and helps make the world, if not a Better place, not a worse one.

Seems like we own the day! Now die like a good Christ!- Boniface de Monteferret, ON THE WALLS OF CHRISTAs Constantinople falls.

She sat there reading; cool, calm and collected. "You could ruin his life with that information," her friend reported triumphantly. The woman sighed, clearly annoyed at being interrupted. "If I did he...

Scary discovery of the day: Most people who RT @yokoono's tweets do so without irony.

Democracy! Bah! When I hear that word I reach for my feather boa!

In it's purest form, an act of retribution provides symmetry. The rendering payment of crimes against the innocent. But a danger on retaliation lies on the furthering cycle of violence. Still, it's a...

Patience is the highest asceticism.

I wish I had more breaks in life, rather than life breaking me.

I learn my world through writing.

To label myself is similar to thinking that I can come up with a single phrase to explain the universe.