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No man needs curing of his individual sickness; his universal malady is what he should look to.

There's something evil in me that loves evil and degradation--purity's black backside! That loves honesty with a horrid love; or why have I always gone seeking it at the liar's door?

"Why, that's Cruella de Vil," said Mrs. Dearly. "We were at school together. She was expelled for drinking ink."

There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.

Ah, but you're the insidious type--Jane Eyre with of touch of Becky Sharp. A thoroughly dangerous girl.

Negative thinking destroys your brain cells and causes global warming. Source: The Scientific Institute of GetOverIt!

I believe that courage is the sum of strength and wisdom. You take away wisdom from the equation - courage may turn to rage.

Martin Larson's The Essene Heritage.

If I had a choice as to my perfect career, I would make a couple of films a year and then concentrate on natural history.

fact, the whole point of the trick' is that knowledge of just these three chords enables the novice musician to play thousands of songs in dozens of genres. Whether

The lights have been dimmed and the window is awash in the blackness and he can see a hairline fracture of dawn against the horizon.

New Jersey always surprises him, a state known for its turnpikes that should be known for its coastlines and bayside hamlets.

Susan is the opposite," I said. "She's big on feelings and insights, though she has an economist's way with words. When she asks why I'm walking through an abyss of loneliness it sounds like she's reading a nutrition label.

The whites do not believe in such things," Charley said. "Believe?" Tupshin was bewildered. "What is this talk of belief? Do they not believe in the sea, then? Or the mountains? There is a thing which is, it is not for believing or not believing.

The world was a playground for the foolish and an exalted wonder of love and magic for the wise.

We've made the mistake of trying to copy the methodology of "success" rather than the process behind the methodology.

I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and the only way to understand it was to write about it.

what in hellhave i done to deserveall these kittens

If a child shows himself to be incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate his kind.

You know what you did? You embraced the insanity you were telling us about. – Don DeLillo, Great Jones Street

I start work at 5 in the morning and I have a wicked insomnia problem.

He writes mostly about crime, although if he can talk Óscar into it he'll do "color" features

Crime 101: "Trust" is a word generally used by convicts and usually in the past tense—i.e., "I trusted him.

The reaction at Manhattan South is going to go something like Someone blanked Eddie Friel? Oh. Anyone want this last chocolate glazed?