But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots.

Sooner or later we must absorb Islam if our own culture is not to die of anemia.

Always carry a corkscrew and the wine shall provide itself.

Men are fools to invest in real estate.

Compose aloud: poetry is a sound. Never explain- your reader is as smart as you. Your reader is not just any reader, but is the rare one with ears in his head.

Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?

To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity.

Our doom is, to be sifted by the wind, heaped up, smoothed down like silly sands. We are less permanent than thought.

Name and date split in soft slate a few months obliterate. 166

Praise the green earth. Chance has appointed her home, workshop, larder, middenpit. Her lousy skin scabbed here and there by cities provides us with name and nation.

Prose exists to convey meaning, and no meaning such as prose conveys can be expressed as well in poetry. That's not poetry's purpose.

These are hard memories, and I will save the rest of the story for another time.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.

Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.

Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.

I have no plan except to take care of the people I love.

The so-called miracle of birth is nature getting her own way.

Stay away from restaurants that have menus in five languages. Thats always a tourist trap. You want to eat where the locals eat.

Mutilated corpses with a chance of afternoon showers. I got dressed and went to work.

The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.

I wanted to get everything right. I was super nerdy and academic. I got so much satisfaction out of getting good grades.