Endings are elusive, middles are nowhere to be found, but worst of all is to begin, to begin, to begin.

Capitalism arose and took off its pajamas. Another day, another dollar. Each man is valued at what he will bring in the marketplace. Meaning has been drained from work and assigned instead to remuneration.

There is no moment that exceeds in beauty that moment when one looks at a woman and finds that she is looking at you in the same way that you are looking at her. The moment in which she bestows that look that says, "Proceed with your evil plan, sumbitch.

Goals incapable of attainment have driven many a man to despair, but despair is easier to get to than that -- one need merely look out of the window, for example.

Endings are elusive, middles are nowhere to be found, but worst of all is to begin, to begin, to begin.

How can you be alienated without first having been connected?

The writer is one who, emnbarking upon a task, does not know what to do.