... all his strength gathered in his hips and chest and his arms wrapped around me and his breath jabbed soft and hot in my ear and a note of tenderness was there at the end like a lovely curlicue and I liked him because there was no disguising the honest male gladness that went from his body out to mine.

A man may take to drink because he feels himself a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.

George Orwell

I'd ruin any day, all my days, for those long nights with you. And I did. But that right there was why it was doomed.

Daniel Handler

Are you seeking to be offended?

Asa Don Brown

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.

Kris Kristofferson

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch

Because bankers measure their self-worth in money, and pay themselves a lot of it, they think they're fine fellows and don't need to explain themselves.

James Buchan

Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.

Zoroaster

Each person is living for himself his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel.

Harry Browne

But for every price, and every penence that I could think ofIt's better too have fallen in love, then never to have fallen at all

Dar Williams

With the coming of spring, I am calm again.

Gustav Mahler

Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware.

Ken Olsen

Science devises ever bloodier means of war until humanity's powers of destruction overcome our powers of creation and our civilisation drives itself to extinction.

David Mitchell