Some men spend their lives looking for ways to punish themselves for having been born.

The sea was surging among the pilings like the blithe mindless forces of dissolution.

Pour alcohol on a bundle of nerves and it generally turns into a can of worms.

In wine was truth, perhaps, but in whisky, the way Hoffman sluiced it down, was an army of imaginary rats climbing your legs.

He was half a politician, and like most of his kind he was an insecure man.

...because life is too exciting not to share.

Organized religion is making Christianity political rather than making politics Christian.

You are wrong if you think that you can in any way take the vision and tame it to the page. The page is jealous and tyrannical; the page is made of time and matter; the page always wins.

The worst thing about permaculture is that it's extremely successful, but it has no center, and no hierarchy.

If you show me who you are being influenced by I will show you what you are becoming.

How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.

Genius gives birth, talent delivers.

Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.

I feel more comfortable confidence-wise. You get to the NHL, and you're nervous about trying things. With experience, you're not as afraid of being creative.

There are a broad range of issues that need to be dealt with. We've got the president's name up on buildings in places where they could be a terrorist attack. This is a very precarious situation.