The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.

People who believe in politics are like people who believe in God: they are sucking wind through bent straws.

If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start.

I was an Agnostic. Agnostics didn't have much to argue about.

i dunno," i said, "but i have an idea that people who don't think too much tend to look younger longer

I once lay in a white hospital for the dying and the dying self, where some god pissed a rain of reason to make things grow only to die, where on my knees I prayed for LIGHT, I prayed for l*i*g*h*t, and praying crawled like a blind slug into the web where threads of wind stuck against my mind and I died of pity for Man, for myself, on a cross without nails, watching in fear as the pig belches in his sty, farts, blinks and eats.

I sit on the couch watching her arrange her long red hair before my bedroom mirror. she pulls her hair up and piles it on top of her head- she lets her eyes look at my eyes- then she drops her hair and lets it fall down in front of her face. we go to bed and I hold her speechlessly from the back my arm around her neck I touch her wrists and hands feel up to her elbows no further.