Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us.
Human Nature Baby, grab it and growl.
Superhero movies and comic books teach a lesson that runs directly counter to the culture-of-violence idea: guns are for bad guys too cowardly to fight like men.
How many have to die before we will give up these dangerous toys?
Ka works and the world moves on.
Things come in three major degrees in the human experience, I think. There’s good, bad, and terrible. And as you go down into progressive darkness towards terrible, it gets harder and harder to make subdivisions.
Never give a good politician time to pray.
They say that loving eyes can never see, but that’s a fool’s axiom. Sometimes, they see too much.
She looks like the type that might freak out. It’s something in the eyes, Frannie. It says if you shoot my sacred cows, I’ll shoot yours.
When the dawn was still long hours away, bad thoughts took on flesh and began to walk. In the middle of the night thoughts became zombies.
But see that you get on. That’s your job in this hard world, to keep your love alive and see that you get on, no matter what. Pull your act together and just go on.
Any game looks straight if everyone is being cheated at once.
There had never been a shortage of fools in the world.
I have no opinion. No, none at all. Opinion is politics, and politics is an evil which has caused many a fellow to be hung while he’s still young and pretty.
God pisses down the back of your neck every day but only drowns you once.
Any statement beginning with the words ‘In truth’ is almost always a lie.
The quiet, singing voice of the rose. The song that promised all might be well, all might be well, that all manner of things might be well.
Isn’t it too bad that the great truths are all such lies.
The rope by which the great blocks of taxes are attached to any citizenry is simple loyalty.
No matter how many times you shake it the last drop always ends up in your pants.