Author Quotes

The continuum in which we live is not the kind of place in which middles can be unambiguously excluded.

America fears the unshaven legs, the unshaven men's cheeks, the aroma of perspiration, and the limp prick. Above all it fears the limp prick.

Their gaze met for a few seconds. The exchange was as warm and friendly as a pair of automated range finders getting a mutual target lock.

The beautiful thing about losing your illusions, he thought, was that you got to stop pretending.

The theme of Death is to Poetry what Mistaken Identity is to Drama.

The Igbo people say, If you want to see it well, you must not stand in one place.

Every one-night-stand or man in a one-night-stand is like every other one-night-stand or man in a one-night-stand because the sex in a one-night-stand is without time and only time allows value.

There is a word in Old English which belongs wholly to that civilization - "dustsceawung," meaning contemplation of dust. It is a true image of the Anglo-Saxon mind, or at least an echo of that consciousness which considered transcience and loss to be part of the human estate; it was a world in which life was uncertain and the principal diety was fate or destiny or "wyrd."

" Tis plain to me
As A B C,
My dear friend, Mr. Neff!"
"Oh, yes! but then,"
Says Mr. N,
"You know I'm D E F!"

Charles Follen Adams

Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans.

Though like the wanderer,
The sun gone down,
Darkness be over me,
My rest a stone;
Yet in my dreams I'd be
Nearer, my God, to Thee.

Sarah Fuller Flower Adams

Opportunity knocks once at every man's door and then keeps on knocking.

New York is a woman
holding, according to history,
a rag called liberty with one hand
and strangling the earth with the other.

For in pure maidens, knowing not the marriage-bed, the glance of the eyes sinks from shame.

If we really want something done, it is best to do it ourselves.

It is a part of probability that many improbable things will happen.

Oh, that in religion, as in everything else, man would judge his brother man by his own heart; and as dear, as precious as his peculiar creed may be to him, believe so it is with the faith of his brother!

I sit beside my lonely fire
And pray for wisdom yet:
For calmness to remember
Or courage to forget.

Charles Hamilton Aide

How shall we praise the magnificence of the dead,
The great man humbled, the haughty brought to dust?

The leafless orchard
Is alone day and night
With his pure and sad silence.

Mehdi Akhavan-Sales