There have been two great narcotics in European civilisation: Christianity and alcohol.

God did create a world without sin. We just screwed it up.

When someone is stalking you because they think you are stalking them, it makes you wonder who really is the true stalker?

The scientific method is nothing more than a system of rules to keep us from lying to each other.

The doctor's wife wasn't a bad woman. She was sufficiently convinced of her own importance to believe that God actually did watch everything she did and listen to everything she said, and she was too...

Only you can change your own world. No one else.

One of the dumbest things you were ever taught was to write what you know. Because what you know is usually dull. Remember when you first wanted to be a writer? Eight or ten years old, reading about t...

To teach better, be an example. People learn from those that do and not just talk.

It's always the mind that needs quietening and the heart that needs listening to.

I swear, the best things come to me by accident! Or should I say, effortless destiny?

The day came when she discovered sex, sensuality, and literature; she said, 'I submit! Let my life be henceforth ruled by poetry. Let me reign as the queen of my dreams until I become nothing less tha...

Tennis and golf are best played, not watched.

Rounding to the nearest cent is sufficiently accurate for practical purposes.

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.

You're up to something, I said.He turned, eyes wide, long fingers pressed to his heart. Moi?Yeah, you,

Why do you weep, child? We of the Floating World live only for the moment, giving all our time to the pleasures of cherry blossoms and snow and maple leaves, the calling of a cricket, the beauty of th...

Wearing Nametags- On YourselfThe purpose of wearing nametags in the first place is for people to see your name. Otherwise, why bother? We have all seen nametag placements that range from proper to dow...

There are certain moments in life when words are not needed. I looked at Biffy, Biffy looked at me. A perfect understanding linked our two souls.?!

The problem with making a virtual world of oneself is akin to the problem with projecting ourselves onto a cyberworld: there’s no end of virtual spaces in which to seek stimulation, but their very end...