From the outside, my life may look chaotic, but inside I feel like some kind of monk licking an ice cream cone while straddling a runaway horse.

Maybe most people were fundamentally contradictory. The real people at any rate.

A Hamburger is warm and fragrant and juicy. A hamburger is soft and nonthreatening. It personifies the Great Mother herself who has nourished us from the beginning. A hamburger is an icon of layered circles, the circle being at once the most spiritual and the most sensual of shapes. A hamburger is companionable and faintly erotic. The nipple of the Goddess, the bountiful belly-ball of Eve. You are what you think you eat.

Laughter is holier than piety, freedom is sweeter than fame, and in the end it's love and love alone that really matters.

You've heard of people calling in sick. You may have called in sick a few times yourself. But have you ever thought about calling in well

…he glanced over his shoulder at her, regarding her, as he often did before they made love, as if she were a lost continent about to be rediscovered.

I journey to the east, where I have been told, there are men who have taught death some manners.