What in hell is a girl with hips like yours doing selling death?
Tiger got to hunt, Bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder, “Why, why, why?” Tiger got to sleep, Bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.
Well, here we are, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why.
Viet Nam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes.
There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Maffia.[William Niles Rumfoord]
There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.
There are too many of us, and we are all too far apart.
Perhaps, when we remember wars, we should take off our clothes and paint ourselves blue and go on all fours all day long and grunt like pigs. That would surely be more appropriate than noble oratory and shows of flags and well-oiled guns.
Never have I risked my life, or even my comfort, in the service of mankind. Shame on me.
Maturity, the way I understand it is knowing what your limitations are.
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.
Live by the foma* that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.[*Harmless untruths; The Books of Bokonon. I: 5]
