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An editor asked me what led me to write erotica. I replied, A dirty mind, excess words, and an overactive sacral chakra.

When public spending in the form of transfer payments makes various services and benefits free of charge, work is discouraged. Yet it is precisely Social ...

The biggest tab the public picks up for fossil fuels has to do with what economists call 'external costs,' like the health effects of air ...

I only work at night, generally. Usually when I work [during the day] I'll black out the windows or something.

F-ck you, p-ssy ass haters you should do you.

Even today no computer can understand language as well as a three-year-old or see as well as a mouse.

Over rolling long periods, U.S. and non-U.S. stocks tend to equalize.

Why can I not stop talking? Livia watched as Cole set the dripping candles on a small table. If I die of embarrassment, they can ...

It would not be worth your while to reach the age of seventy if all the wisdom of the world were to be foolishness before ...

You never have to listen to a famous person, it's an elective.

Perils of solitude #1: People talk to you. I'd rather listen.

I like to think of myself as Prince Charles's friend. He's a great fellow. There are always people trying to knock him, but The Prince's ...

Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.

Man in a word has no nature; what he has..is history.

A modern story of Mullah Nasrudin, the Sufi teacher and holy fool, tells of him entering a bank and trying to cash a check. The ...

It's a problem of mine. I'm, I don't know, sick or something. I like it when men do things to me, things that some women ...

It's not what happens, it's what you do that determines your future.

I worked on scores. I went to the musical library in Berlin which is very famous. I discovered that we had scores of Beethoven, printed ...

Lo, I am the most stupendous in the land at my particular profession.

Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.

I know not how it is, but during a voyage I collect books as a ship does barnacles.

My cousin. His name is Abel. He is two years older than I. Next to my father, he is dearest to my heart.

A marriage based only on physical attraction or romantic emotions is almost certainly doomed to failure right from the start.

Mindless violence against the undead?" said Zzzap. "Count me in.

I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.

We walked for a long time. We kissed, we embraced on the Lungarno, I asked him, half serious, half joking, if he wanted to sneak ...

Happiness can be achieved through training the mind.

Business is difficult. But it could be approached two ways: Seriously, or with the same way you're doing your job, with entertainment aspect, with pleasure, ...

What a cocky little turd. I

I have a Kenwood charcoal grill. In our house, if anybody is cooking, it's me. I love making burgers. I love making pork tenderloin. Lamb ...

Lobbying is a legitimate profession ... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.

Could you imagine people eating a painting if they could introduce a painting into their bodies? It's probably the artist's dream, and we have the ...

Turkey has a young and growing population. Until recently, this was perceived as a problem, a burden that Turkey would bring to the E.U. But ...

God doesn't participate in the things we can do ourselves

Oh, everything looks bad if you remember it.

The unhappiness of a wife with a good husband is much more devastating than the unhappiness of a wife with a bad husband.

Music is a great energizer. It's a language everybody knows.

If the ravens leave the Tower, Britain will fall.

He relayed a saying from a story his father used to tell him: A child is a child when he's a child, even if he's ...

I'm not a highly outgoing person. I'm pretty guarded when you first meet me. But being in a Speedo for my entire life growing up, ...

I think that still, for the most part, even in 2010, the vast majority of museum shows and gallery shows and gallerists are pretty much ...

We will never privatise the National Health Service.

A fitness instructor in Maine has been charged with running a prostitution business out of her Zumba dance studio. Authorities first got suspicious when they ...

Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.

Life is a system of recurrent pairs, the poison and the antidote being eternally packaged together by some considerate heavenly druggist.

One of the great autoharpists and folksingers of our times.

If I'd learned anything about this woman it was that she looked like heaven, but she could make you hurt like hell.

The blue of daylightfades and chills as the sun sinksbeneath clouds of fire.

Things lak dat got uh whole lot tuh do wid convenience, but it ain't got nothin' tuh do wid love.

Almost twelve years of marriage and she's still unlike any woman I've ever known.

Even though I went to Exeter and Yale, and I enjoyed all the trappings of those places, I think at the same time - and ...

My mother and my grandmother are pioneers of Mexican cuisine in this country, so I grew up in the kitchen. My mom, Zarela Martinez, was ...

I have a passion for academic life, a passion for students and for the ability and the narrative of a university to make a difference ...

The lower you fall the higher you can rise.

When you are doing one thing - talking on your phone, texting, whatever - you are automatically not doing something else. What is the greatest ...

No woman has the right to marry a man if she has to bend herself out of shape for him. She might wish to, but ...

Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities.

I tour all year, 42 weeks a year, so it's hard for me to remember every place I play.

Take you me for a sponge?

When I moved to Stanford I began to pursue the line of research I have been following ever since, namely trying to understand the larger ...

I can give you my word of honor." "And pray what may be the value of that?" inquired the amused Regent. "Monsieur, it is worth ...

I wanna try being a waiter at restaurant or work to introduce Korea to other people!

I'd love to see the secondary markets become more widespread in terms of their adoption.

Listen, I'm from Belfast. We're not polite people. And it's language. We're direct.

Friendship is not about ships - no matter how big and fancy and expensive the yacht is.

During the summertime, I really like to dress like a gypsy. I love that whole lifestyle and the whole mixing of fabrics and flowy materials.

If you run into a wall and pretend it doesn't exist, you'll never make any progress. The wall will never change. so you're the one ...

To identify your own idols, ask questions like these: What things take the place of God in my life? Where do I find my significance ...

Well, my whole thing with gossip is I couldn't care less if it's true.

But it's also true that my memory is a card shark, reshuffling the deck to hide what I fear to know, unable to keep from ...

On 'Friday,' I had a big trailer, and we would have a barbecue going and music playing. It was a fun set. There was too ...

I've always loved reporting from the field most of all. There's something about doing live TV and being there as it happens that's always appealed ...

I am loved and accepted exactly how I am, right here and right now.

Wendy!" Finn shouted pulling me from my moment with Loki. "What are you doing? You're married. And not to him." "Nothing slips by you does ...

As it turns out, we don't "all" have to pay our debts. Only some of us do.

And so, all the night-tide, I lay down the side, of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride, in the sepulchre there by ...

It was one thing to get laid out by Archer in Defense, but being attacked out of nowhere by my great-grandmother was just embarrassing.

When I first arrived in London, I so quickly tired of being surrounded by so many people that it was only with great difficulty that ...

Ready to be humiliated, Wanda?" Wes taunted. "You may have taken the planet, but you're losing this game.

The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.

In 1776, at the point of severance, except for an infusion of words from east coast Indian languages, the English language of North America was ...

Keeper scum.""That's offensive coming from a wraith. I think I'm going to have to defend my honor.

We're having a celebration, so all sorts of things have been said which are not true,' I said. 'That's how to act at a party.

He dipped her low and kissed her fiercely, as if he were angry, and each time his lips left hers, even just for half a ...

I think I did it because I was hurting. I think I wanted to mark that hurt in the outside. I think I wanted to ...

Vulnerability is neither good nor bad. Rather, being vulnerable simply means you have the capacity to experience emotions.

A theology of unknowing is necessary for a theology of knowing because without it God would not be worshipped as infinite but rather as a ...

Thank you for the music, Sleater-Kinney. This gang of three was the best American punk rock band ever. Ever.

Adorn thyself with simplicity and modesty and with indifference towards the things which lie between virtue and vice. Love mankind. Follow

On the protocol, I don't know what to do... ain't good with talking to new girls... I even don't have a girl friend and the ...

I think the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, first of all, has got to be put into the context of being an American cultural ...

It is a hell of a thing to be hungry in your own house.

Someone who doesn't take herself too seriously and can be a goofball. Because everyone's a nerd inside, I don't care how cool you are.

First, define your credo- the belief system of the organization. Secondly, define your real ambition, or where do you want to go as a collective ...

Doubt in love is the Devil in the paradise!

I can see in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden.

I'm the culinary and creative consultant for The Water Club.

The Sicilian Defense album was never released and never will be if I have anything to do with it. I have not heard it since ...

See your weakness as a reason to pray the more, it should not be the reason for sadness or to abandon your post.

It would be of great use to us to form our deliberate judgments of persons and things in the calmest and serenest hours of life, ...