You're Hell's Angels, then? What chapter are you from?''REVELATIONS. CHAPTER SIX.

Why are we talking about this good and evil? They're just names for sides. We know that.

It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism.

Loyalty was a great thing, but no lieutenants should be forced to choose between their leader and a circus with elephants.

The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.

America was, to them, the place that good people went to when they died. They were prepared to believe just about anything could happen in America.

And then he'd tried to become an official Atheist and hadn't got the rock-hard self-satisfied strength of belief even for that.

Notoriety wasn't as good as fame, but was heaps better than obscurity.

The really important thing to be was yourself, just as hard as you could.

Hell may have all the best composers, but heaven has all the best choreographers.

He wondered reflectively what would happen if you asked a nun where the Gents was. Probably the Pope sent you a sharp note or something.

Summer bachelors like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.

I have this idyllic love life, but my mind just won't accept that. I would like to bring a new guy home every night. I try to make humor out of that situation.

In my forties, my optimism was boundless. I had really good health and tremendous success which allowed me to do anything I wanted.

Without new ideas success can become stale

The guy I've got my eye on happens to be hot. Off-the-charts hot. Hotter-than-Patch hot.' She paused. 'Well maybe not that hot. Nobody's that hot.

Bicycles are almost as good as guitars for meeting girls.

It was heartbreaking . . . I think it was disappointing because I had such an identity in being 'Mrs. Parker', and being a wife, and so when that's taken away from you, you [think], 'Who am I?

If you were to try and pick him out of a group of boys, you’d be wrong. He’d be the other one. Over at the side. The one your eye slipped over.

You can judge the success of a man by his bodyguards!

Teachers must be celebrated for moving civilization from ignorance to enlightenment, from apathy to responsibility.