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After writing a story, I wipe the blood off my hands wondering,"What have I done?
Well, she's either Jackie or . . . hey, how about Stormy? Like some North Hollywood stripper?
For the first time we have a weapon that nobody has used for thirty years. This gives me great hope for the human race.
Where man is the end, or the means, all men are mean.
Laymen learn to read photographs the way they do headlines, skipping over them quickly to get the gist of what is being said. Photographers, on ...
Right now, I'd be happy to find whatever it was and let it pull me into his den away from Penthouse page sixteen up there.
From the time a child walks until about the firstgrade, one of the main tasks parents have is to keep their kids alive
You want success but You don't want to bear
First publication is a pure, carnal leap into that dark which one dreams is life.
Books are both our luxuries and our daily bread.
I didn't study it for my career; I studied it for my soul.
The present is an infinitesimal between two infinites. 'Tis a line (a thing without breadth or thickness) moving across the surface of Eternity . The ...
The basic creed of the gangster, and for that matter of any other type of criminal, is that whatever a man has is his only ...
The pain we feel in separation is the price we pay for love.
A kleptomaniac is a person who helps himself because he can't help himself
The only secret knowledge we have is know-how and you can't break up know-how by court order.
Scotland small? Our multiform, infinite Scotland SMALL?
Many people prefer to treat themselves as objects, and they are relieved by an opportunity to deliver themselves into the hands of an authoritarian figure ...
I regret my choice of words which do not accurately reflect the process of the James committee, with which I have been closely involved and ...
God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways, in these last days has spoken ...
To live without self-respect is to lie awake some night, beyond the reach of warm milk, Phenobarbital,
The world tried to catch me but failed.
Harland could see the dark yawn of eternity in the muzzle of Lancaster's .45.
Billy, in one of his nice new sashes, Fell in the fire and was burnt to ashes; Now, although the room grows chilly, I haven't ...
PROLOGUE CHAPTER
It's time we all looked up and saw the inspiration in the world around us!
The worst kind ofpain... is the one which is invisible to our near and dear ones
I'm not trying to change an image, I'm just trying to make sure that the facts match the image. The facts are basically that I'm ...
Kindly politeness is the slow fruit of advanced reflection; it is a sort of humanity and kindliness applied to small acts and every day discourse: ...
Am I now trying to win the approval of human beings, or of God? Or am I trying to please other people? If I were ...
Endurance is the free companion of Sorrow, and Patience her master.
White middle- and upper-class men have a longer journey to go than many people.
What will we be doing, when everything that can be done, can be done better by robots?
When one begins to philosophize one must be first a Spinozist. The soul must bathe itself in the aether of this single substance, inwhich everything ...
Memory cannot produce a picture that Imagination has not retouched; and her pictures, even the ones least touched by Imagination, are no mere photographs, but ...
Why be tempted by one man's seduction, when you can be loved by three?
Why is everyone such a cunt about grammer?
It has to do with the fact that Ford, for all his greatness, is an Irish egomaniac, as anyone who knows him will say.
So we took out those 3 root canals when she had 3-6 months to live. And that was 6 years ago, and she is still ...
We must ... maintain that mathematical geometry is not a science of space insofar as we understand by space a visual structure that can be ...
There is nothing like a good negative review to sell a book.
All you need to build a house, Is blood and bricks and plaster.
The turning point in history will be the moment man becomes aware that the only god of man is man himself.
All of us task-oriented obsessive compulsives must learn to slow down and let people into our lives.
He was not pouting. 'Yes, you were.' He was not doing a very good job of keeping his inner thoughts inner, either.
Tell the Truth, and speak from your pay-grade. Don't try to answer questions that would better be directed to the battalion commander or Gen. William ...
Whenever I'm asked what kind of writing is the most lucrative, I have to say ransom notes.
Lie to yourself, not to someone else
I met Robert Crumb in 1962; he lived in Cleveland for a while. I took a look at his stuff. Crumb was doing stuff beyond ...
Even in technology, you have the freedom to solve a problem your way, you see. But it naturally sits in a certain framework whereas, in ...