People who sacrifice beauty for efficiency get what they deserve. (Bernard Mickey Wrangle, p 99)

The winter passed as slowly and peacefully as a boa constrictor digesting a valium addict.

Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef.

The principal difference between an adventurer and a suicide is that the adventurer leaves himself a margin of escape (the narrower the margin the greater the adventure), a margin whose width and length may be determined by unknown factors but whose navigation is determined by the measure of the adventurer's nerve and wits. It is exhilarating to live by one's nerves or toward the summit of one's wits.

Sharks are the criminals of the sea. Dolphins are the outlaws.

Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need.

Hold on to your divine blush, your innate rosy magic, or end up brown. Once you're brown, you'll find out you're blue. As blue as indigo. And you know what that means. Indigo. Indigoing. Indigone.