There's probably no subject with quite so many conflictin' opinions about it as there are about food, and 'tis better to swap bubble gum with a rabid bulldog than challenge a single one o' the varyin' beliefs your average human holds about nutrition.

There exists a false aristocracy based on family name, property, and inherited wealth. But there likewise exists a true aristocracy based on intelligence, talent and virtue.

Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard.

Often, moreover, it is...that aspect of our being that society finds eccentric, ridiculous, or disagreeable, that holds our sweet waters, our secret well of happiness, the key to our equanimity in malevolent climes.

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

It was autumn, the springtime of death.

You're better equipped for this world than I am," she said. "I'm always trying to change the world. You know how to live in it.