People who were so good. There were angels.

... humanity deserved to die horribly, since it had behaved so cruelly and wastefully on a planet so sweet.

No good at life, but very funny sometimes with the commentary.

There is no good reason good can't triumph over evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the mafia.

Your eloquence should be the servant of the ideas in your head. Your rule might be this: If a sentence, no matter how excellent, does not illuminate your subject in some new and useful way, scratch it out.

Music is, to me, proof of the existence of God. It is so extraordinarily full of magic, and in tough times of my life I can listen to music and it makes such a difference.

I asked this heroic pet lover how it felt to have died for a schnauzer named Teddy. Salvador Biagiani was philosophical. He said it sure beat dying for absolutely nothing in the Viet Nam War.