Suicide is part murder, revenge on those who hurt you, just as murder is part suicide, for a murderer knows he risks losing his life.

Murder is the apex of megalomania, the ultimate in control.

When one must sit with the snobs, one belongs with the frightened.

Life for the unhappy is an endless search for 'the good parent,' one who will truly love him instead of making him afraid.

Flippancy may be a lance tilted in the face of fear.

Understanding why is never enough.

often when I thought I joked, I told the truth, afraid to speak it except in jest.

each generation devises better ways to survive. Civilization may, in one sense, be a tribute to the ingeniousness of some children in outwitting parents.

Reason finds it difficult to take root in the arid soil of wrath.

The outer prisons are made by the community to contain those who have dared break its laws. The inner prisons each man makes for himself because of what he feels are his transgressions.

Usually the things you dislike in a person are his defenses against fear.

The problem lies not with genre but with formula, which consists of seeing genre conventions as restrictions rather than mere guidelines, ends in themselves rather than possibilities.

I would like to be like Rome when I am an old lady.

I am selfish. I am brave.

Love the animals. God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Don't trouble it, don't harass them, don't deprive them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent.

Give me lust, baby. Flash. Give me malice. Flash. Give me detached existentialist ennui. Flash. Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism. Flash.

A good father does these basic things: provides for his family, protects his family, and gives spiritual and moral guidance.

Our law enforcement must be given every tool available to protect children from predators and parents need to know who is living in their community.

Can we change the world? No, but hell, we can all try.

The civil rights movement was devoid of grace; it was using some unfortunate people as means to a communistic end.

Adron always had a thing for expensive ho’s with the intelligence of backwash. You look like you actually have both a brain and a soul. (Zarina)