"Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen."

-- Norman Mailer

#Lying Quotes #Each Day Quotes #Television Quotes

“So this Zealot comes to my door, all glazed eyes and clean reproductive organs, asking me if I ever think about God. So I tell him I killed God. I tracked God down like a rabid dog, hacked off his legs with a hedge trimmer, raped him with a corncob, and boiled off his corpse in an acid bath. So he pulls an alternating-current taser on me and tells me that only the Official Serbian Church of Tesla can save my polyphase intrinsic electric field, known to non-engineers as "the soul." So I hit him. What would you do?”
“Once upon a Lammas Night When corn rigs are bonny, Beneath the Moon's unclouded light, I held awhile to Annie... The time went by with careless heed Between the late and early, With small persuasion she agreed To see me through the barley... Corn rigs and barley rigs, Corn rigs are bonny! I'll not forget that happy night Among the rigs with Annie!”
“Whatever the issue, let freedom offer us a hundred choices, instead of having government force one answer on everyone.”
“The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul”
“I just turned 50. 50's like the new 49 and nothing better, let me tell you.”
“You only had to choose which me to talk to, for, you know, we all change our manners, depending on who has come to chat. One doesnâ€™t behave at all the same way to a grandfather as to a bosom friend, to a professor as to a curious niece.”
“Some things you don't have to tell. Some things, between sisters, are understood.”
“Some of them I probably would like. Some of my fans probably beat their wives or run over little kids and they just happen to watch me on TV and like the way I ski. Obviously I clearly wouldn't like that person if I knew 'em better.”

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