She leaned down and looked at his lifeless face and Leisel kissed her best friend, Rudy Steiner, soft and true on his lips. He tasted dusty and sweet. He tasted like regret in the shadows of trees and in the glow of the anarchist's suit collection. She kissed him long and soft, and when she pulled herself away, she touched his mouth with her fingers...She did not say goodbye. She was incapable, and after a few more minutes at his side, she was able to tear herself from the ground. It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on...

My roommate got a pet elephant. Then it got lost. It's in the apartment somewhere.

Steven Wright

When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?

Quentin Crisp

In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.

Charles Baudelaire

In God's eyes, we're all the same.

Mark Willis

This new world was a vicious, sleek world made of street lights and tight jeans, sharp smiles and fast cars. This was a city, edited. A city, pared down to its bare minimums, beautiful and abusive.

Maggie Stiefvater

My new movie, Fools Rush In, is a romantic comedy and the girl I play in that is very warm, very sweet.

Salma Hayek

Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort.

Erich Fromm

To say I drank my way into marriage isn't much of an exaggeration, and it's none at all to say I drank my way out of it.

Lawrence Block

Without Arthur's voice, I never would have enjoyed that success.

Paul Simon

Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan.

Thornton Wilder

There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible.

Sean O'Casey

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb