"No, because retiring is stopping. If I wanted to stop, I would have stopped."

“A review of studies by physicians found that excessive exercise is bad for your heart. Another study says a daily serving of chocolate is actually good for your heart. That's got to make next year New Year's resolution easier to keep. "I'm going to exercise less. Eat a little more chocolate.”

“Rest and play, are as vital to our health as nutrition and exercise”

“Europe is no longer Europe, it is Eurabia, a colony of Islam, where the Islamic invasion does not proceed only in a physical sense, but also in a mental and cultural sense.”

Source : "Prophet of Decline" by Tunku Varadarajan, www.wsj.com. June 23, 2005.

“Chastity works better if you don't keep testing it.”

“There's no law against a sentence existing in two places at once, unlike humans, who are no longer allowed to bilocate because it confuses the cops too much.”

Source : "What Would Twitter Do?" with Sheila Heti, believermagblog.wordpress.com. July 23, 2014.

“The perfect man? A poet on a motorcycle.”

Source : "Lucinda Williams: What I've Learned" by Brendan Vaighan, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

“The first cup moistens my lips and throat; The second cup breaks my loneliness; The third cup searches my barren entrail but to find therein some thousand volumes of odd ideographs; The fourth cup raises a slight perspiration-all the wrongs of life pass out through my pores; At the fifth cup I am purified; The sixth cup calls me to the realms of the immortals. The seventh cup-ah, but I could take no more! I only feel the breath of the cool wind that raises in my sleeves. Where is Elysium? Let me ride on this sweet breeze and waft away thither.”

“When he'd pushed inside me and I'd feel him begin to penetrate, it had turned me into a wild thing-hot, wet, and desperate for more of him. With every kiss, every caress, every thrust, I'd just needed more. He'd touched me, I went nuts. The world dwindled down to one thing: him.”