“The serpent tries to engulf my head. No, not a snake, an oxygen mask.”
― The Gargoyle
― The Gargoyle
“We're forever teetering on the brink of the unknowable, and trying to understand what can't be understood.”
― The Caves of Steel
― The Caves of Steel
“A coworker at SNL dropped an angry c-bomb on me and i had the weirdest reaction. To my surprise, I blurted, "No. You don't get to call me that. My parents love me. I'm not some Adult Child of an Alcoholic that's going to take that shit.”
― Bossypants
― Bossypants
“Every time I conjure up a rock, I throw it.”
― The Color Purple
― The Color Purple
“Willie experienced the strange sensations of the first days of a new captain: a shrinking of his personal identiy, and a stretching out of his nerve ends to all the spaces and machinery of the ship. He was less free than before. He developed the apprehensive listening ears of a young mother; the ears listened on in his sleep; he never quite slept, not the way he had before.”
― The Caine Mutiny
― The Caine Mutiny
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