Christians, and some Jews, claim we're in the "end times," but they've been saying this off and on for more than two thousand years.

The only question is how to make love stay.

You knows dat in New Orleans is not morning 'til dee sun come up.

Kissing is man's greatest invention. All animals copulate, but only humans kiss.

The harsh truth is, most red-haired men look like blondes who've spoiled from lack of refrigeration. They look like brown-haired men who've been composted out behind the barn. Yet that same pigmentation that on a man can resemble leaf mold or junkyard rust, a woman wears like a tiara of rubies.

But the center can be a harmful place for one who has lived so long on the edge.... Normality is the Great Neurosis of civilization.

If desire causes suffering, it may be because we do not desire wisely, or that we are inexpert at obtaining what we desire. Instead of hiding our heads in a prayer cloth and building walls against temptation, why not get better at fulfilling desire? Salvation is for the feeble, that's what I think. I don't want salvation, I want life, all of life, the miserable as well as the superb.