Get yourself in that extreme state of being next to madness. You should always write with an erection. Even if you're a woman.

In the beginning was the thing. And one thing led to another.

Western civilization was declining too fast for comfort, but too slowly to be very exciting.

The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and the vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. Loving makes love. Loving makes itself. We waste time looking for the perfect lover instead of creating the perfect love. Wouldn't that be the way to make love stay?

What difference does it make if the Gospel is mostly a lie? It's an engrossing story and the words of its hero are excellent words to live by, even today.

There are only two mantras, yum and yuck, mine is yum.

Virtually every advancement made by our species since civilization first peeked out of its nest of stone has been initiated by lone individuals, mavericks who more often than not were ignored, mocked, or viciously persecuted by society and its institutions.