Random chance is not sufficient to explain random chance. ~Jubal Harshaw

The country and culture commonly known as "America" had had a badly split personality all through its history. Its overt laws were almost always puritanical for a people whose covert behavior tended to be Rabelaisian; its major religions were all Apollonian in varying degrees---its religious revivals were often hysterical in a fashion almost Dionysian.

There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute nor common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back...

Always tell her she is beautiful, especially if she is not.

He's as weird as snake's suspenders but sweet as a stolen kiss, too.

Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes.

Who is more real? Homer or Ulysses? Shakespeare or Hamlet? Burroughs or Tarzan?