Priapism is what happens when someone gets strangulated to the point of hypoxia.

Twenty-four years ago I was strangely handsome; in San Francisco in the rainy season I was often mistaken for fair weather.

God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New--the Jekyl and Hyde of sacred romance.

You can't no more teach what you ain't learned than you can come from where you ain't been.

We were surprised how closely the cuckoo imitated the clock-and yet, of course, it could never have heard a clock.

But old fools is the biggest fools there is.

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.