One good maxim to keep in mind, and I can't remember who said it, "You meet the same people on the way down that you meet on the way up, but you're going the other way."

I grew up with the biologists. I know how they think.

They seemed to be able to choose. We seemed to be able to choose, then. We were a society dying of too much choice.

How shrunk, how dwindled, in our times Creation's mighty seed - For Man has broke the Fellowship With murder, lust, and greed.

You can't keep a cool head when you're drowning in love. You just trash around a lot and scream, and wear yourself out.

Imagine a famine. Now imagine a piece of bread. Both of these things are real but you happen to be in the same room with only one of them. Put yourself into a different room, that’s what the mind is for.

oil paints...the look of licked lips.