Perhaps sound carries farther across time than across space.
Perhaps that is why desire causes men calamity. By identifying with our desires and taking them too seriously, we not only increase our susceptibility to disappointment, we actually create a climate i...
Pious dogma, if allowed to flourish, will always drive magic away.
Silence is a mirror. So faithful, and yet so unexpected, is the relection it can throw back at men that they will go to almost any length to avoid seeing themselves in it, and if ever its duplicating...
Since, on a socio-economic level, there are myriad wrongs that need tobe righted, a major problem for the species seems to be how to assistthe unfortunate, throttle the corrupt, preserve the biosphere...
Sissy: You really don't believe in political solutions do you?The Chink: I believe in political solutions to political problems. But man's primary problems aren't political; they're philosophical. Unt...
Size is important, no matter what our apologist sisters say.
Slang just makes people more stupid, that’s all,
So it was that neither for the first time nor the last my verbal mojo, my knack for the written word, served to save my reckless ass.
Some families ran their own little version of the Middle East.
Some folks hide, and some folks seek, and seeking, when it's mindless, neurotic, desperate, or pusillanimous can be a form of hiding.
Surely there would be humidity and plenty of it in Hell. Hard to imagine a condemned sinner saying cheerfully, Well, yes, it's two hundred and sixty degrees down here, but it's a *dry* heat.
THE BILL FOR DARRELL BOB HOUSTON THE BEET IS THE MOST INTENSE of vegetables. The onion has as many pages as War and Peace, every one of which is poignant enough to make a strong man weep, but the vari...
THE MINUTE YOU LAND IN NEW ORLEANS, something wet and dark leaps on you and starts humping you like a swamp dog in heat, and the only way to get the aspect of New Orleans off you is to eat it off.
The Divine was beyond description, beyond knowing, beyond comprehension. To say that the Divine was Creation divided by Destruction was as close as one could come to definition. But the puny of soul,...
The French say that the best part of an affair is going up the stairs.
The day of the full moon, when the moon is neither increasing nor decreasing, the Babylonians called Sa-bat, meaning heart-rest. It was believed that on this day, the woman in the moon, Ishtar, as the...
The hippopotamus is a vegetarian but ferociously territorial (you might find that true of certain vegans you know), and will flip a raft or bite it in half: once one is in the water, the crocodiles sh...
The loony legacy of money was that the arithmetic by which things were measured had become more valuable than the things themselves.
The only authority I respect is the one that causes butterflies to fly south in fall and north in springtime.
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