I shouted into the phone, but there was no reply. Silence floated up from the receiver like smoke from the mouth of a gun.

Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering.

There had to be something wrong with my life. I should have been born a Yugoslavian shepherd who looked up at the Big Dipper every night.

Life's no piece of cake, mind you, but the recipe's my own to fool with.

Death leaves cans of shaving cream half-used.

Losing you is most difficult for me, but the nature of my love for you is what matters. If it distorts into half-truth, then perhaps it is better not to love you. I must keep my mind but loose you.

Open your eyes, train your ears, use your head. If a mind you have, then use it while you can.

I never trust people with no appetite. It's like they're always holding something back on you.

That's evolution. Evolution's always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution

Don't blame me. That's evolution. Evolution's always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution.

Let your body work until it is spent, but keep your mind to yourself.

…..she needed him to know she did not care. She was spirited, tenacious, and full of contempt for him.

Do you understand the sadness of geography?

To make money buy some good stock hold it until it goes up and then sell it. If it doesn't go up don't buy it.

You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.

I woke at intervals until . . . the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often awake than not.

The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.

By strengthening the economy, providing job opportunity and meeting the needs of working families, we can ensure the continued prosperity of our nation.

A promise is a child of the understanding and the will; the understanding begets it, the will brings it forth.

A man's real education begins after he has left school. True education is gained through the discipline of life.

I don't think there is a national pasttime. Watching TV is a national pasttime. Really. If there is a national pasttime, it is watching TV.