The party in Alobar’s head, which agitation and anxiety were throwing, now was crashed by a notion: existence can be rearranged.

On their sofas of spice and feathers, the concubines also slept fretfully. In those days the Earth was still flat, and people dreamed often of falling over edges.

Never underestimate how much assistance, how much satisfaction, how much comfort, how much soul and transcendence there might be in a well-made taco and a cold bottle of beer.

You knows dat in New Orleans is not morning 'til dee sun come up.

Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard.

Death is impatient and thoughtless. It barges into your room when you are right in the middle of something, and it doesn't bother to wipe its boots.

She continued weeping until the heat of her tear water, the sheer velocity of its flow, finally obscured the already vague circumstances of its origins.

salvation is for the feeble, that's what I think. I don't want salvation, I want life, all of life, the miserable as well as the superb.

There is a comfort in conformity, a security in control, that is appealing. There is a thrill in domination, and we are all secretly attracted to violence.

All dreams continue in the beyond.

If you want your tree to produce plenty o' fruit, you've got to cut it back from time to time. Same thing with your neural cells. Some people might call it brain damage. I call it prunin'.

I don't need anything to get high. I'm high on life.

You want to live in a world where someone is good or bad. Where you either hate them or love them. But that's not how people are.

My second ex-wife was really kind of like a ship passing in the night. Only she turned out to be the Exxon Valdez.

It is very difficult to imagine that you can actually get rid of a dictatorship that has been there for 60 years only in 18 days.

As far as intellect, what else is there? Without intellect, no story and no world.

Here be dragons to be slain, here be rich rewards to gain; If we perish in the seeking, why, how small a thing is death!

As an actor, that's the most important thing. You want to be able to let go and not hold onto anything, so that you can give an honest portrayal and performance.

Idealism is a fuel for living, and there is an absolute efficiency about how it motivates and propels us.

We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

God does not give us ready money. He issues promissory notes, and then pays them at the throne. Each one of us has a check-book.