The first time that she spread her legs for him it had been like opening her jaws for the dentist.

Me? I stand for uncertainty, insecurity, bad taste, fun, and things that go boom in the night.

Maybe what I admired most about John Steinbeck is that he never mortgaged his 45-acre heart for a suite in an ivory tower.

It's hard to say who's a greater threat to the world, an ambitious CEO with a big ad budget or a crafty cleric with an obsolete Bible verse.

We only rise above mediocrity when there's something at stake. p. 174

almost any object, including this book you hold, can turn up as Exhibit A in a murder trial.

More immediately, by waxing soulful you will have granted yourself the possibility of ecstatic participation in what the ancients considered a divinely animated universe. And on a day to day basis, folks, it doesn't get any better than that.