Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

whiskey makes the heart beat faster but it sure doesn't help the mind and isn't it funny how you can ache just from the deadly drone of existence?

I can almost understand why people leap from bridges.

They looked as if nothing had ever touched them--all well-mothered, protected, with a soft sheen of contentment. None of them had ever been in jail, or worked hard with their hands, or even gotten a traffic ticket. Skimmed-milk jollies, the whole bunch.

The centuries are sprinkled with rare magic with divine creatures who help us get past the common and extraordinary ills that beset us

and the color in my eyes has gone back into the sea.