There's a boy across the river with an ass like a peach; alas I was no swimmer and lost my Clementine.

Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him.

We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse

Scientology is a model control system, a state in fact with its own courts, police, rewards and penalties.

Most all methods of capitol punishment are designed to inflict the maximum of humiliation - not attempts to prevent suicide.

If I had my way we'd sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.

I know that Nature designs that this whole continent, not merely these thirty-six states, shall be, sooner or later, within the magic circle of the American union.