"When I haven't been kissed in a long time, I create civil disturbances, then insult the cops who show up, till one of them grabs me by the collar and hurls me up against the squad car, so I can remember, at least for a moment, what it's like to be touched."

-- Jeffrey McDaniel

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“It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it is to live at all.”

Source : Willard Van Orman Quine, Patricia Smith Churchland, Dagfinn Follesdal (2013). “Word and Object”, p.173, MIT Press
“The early bird gets the worm, the rest starve.”
“It ain't the rain, the snow, the boss, the competition, the spouse, the money, the car, the job, or the kids - it's you! And it always has been.”
“I donâ€™t write things to benefit the world. If it happens that they do, swell. I didnâ€™t set out to do that. I set out to have a hell of a lot of fun.”
“I was what you are, you will be what I am.”
“There's a button that goes On and I'm On. And when I go On, there is almost no me; there is just a character who is doing all this.”
“Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered.”
“When my father passed, I was still an unsuccessful cook with a drug problem. I was in my mid-thirties, standing behind an oyster bar, cracking clams for a living when he died. So, he never saw me complete a book or achieve anything of note. I would have liked to have shared this with him.”

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