"For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is the flowering of a symbol center. It is a poem grafted onto sturdier stock."

-- William H. Gass

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“My hair used to be real long, and my parents were encouraged when I cut it. They thought I was going 'straight,' but I was just getting weirder - at least in their eyes. I was getting into the punk thing.”

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“When a man talks from his heart, in his moment of truth, he speaks poetry.”
“I was shooting a bikini promotion in Mahe in the Seychelles in 1980 when there was a military coup and I, along with a roomful of other people, ended up being kidnapped and held hostage at gunpoint in a windowless room with no ventilation for 36 hours.”
“John Arne Riise was deservedly blown up for that foul”
“The call to adventure is the point in a personâ€™s life when they are first given notice that everything is going to change, whether they know it or not.”
“It's amazing that it's considered revolutionary to wear my hair the way it grows out of my head.”
“Most champions are built by punch the clock workouts rather than extraordinary efforts.”
“Ownership in the world I have none, but I have an infinite interest in it; for if not my own it is my God's; and so it is mine in a higher than a legal sense. Yes, this is the beauty, this is the whole sublimity, this is the tender delight of life - that it is of God's governing.”

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