There's a bad odor about a man who's been betrayed.

The Golden Arches of McDonald's rise, glorious across the landscape, contempo-monolithic, simple in concept as Stonehenge if we could but see it.

I like density, not volume. I like to leave something to the imagination. The reader must fit the pieces together, with the author's discreet help.

The part we play is not as we want it, but as we are made-with the genitals God gave us.

I've finally learned not to want things I cannot have.

Acceptance is the word we must substitute for dependence in dealing with the aged. Their acceptance of help, ours of their need.

None of the adults I knew ever touched in public, much less kneaded each others flesh.

Hindsight is common and bland as boiled potatoes.

To fear the bourgeois is bourgeois.

Wouldn't a laugh serve us better than to battle it out with our mortal souls?

To say a thing simply: I am my history, but the story of my life is always guarded, self-conscious. It is finally the only story we give to someone we love.

He who knows how to use the power of love is the most powerful.

She is off the heart's map and her compass is spinning.

When you turn around, you'll see something I bet you've never seen before. If it takes your breath away, then you'll fit in nicely. If you don't feel anything, then maybe you don't belong here.

Jimi Hendrix played loud and free, Sergeant Pepper was real to me.

I've tried writing. Two days later I'd go visit it and say, Jesus Christ, who wrote this crap?

A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.

Oy vey, these guys is New York's spineless Strangled and denied it for Anthony Baez

I feel a degree of regret that Marshall did not push on and say 'abolish the GLC' because I think it would have been a major saving and would have released massive resources for productive use.

Water is the life-giver and the death-bringer.

Love can be the most dreadful disguise that hate assumes.