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Rice and peas fit into that category of dishes where two ordinary foods, combined together, ignite a pleasure far beyond the capacity of either of its parts alone. Like rhubarb and strawberries, apple pie and cheese, roast pork and sage, the two tastes and textures meld together into the sort of subtle transcendental oneness that we once fantasized would be our experience when we finally found the ideal mate.
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Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.
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A thong. God bless the thong. He hooked his fingers in the silk sides and tugged, rolling the silk down her legs until it hit the floor, his favorite place for panties.
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What I wanted to do [in Allied] was get two characters who fall in love for real, across the barricade, and then it transcends the war.
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For mankind knows hardly a joy which will surpass that of approval of his work.
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Design is where science and art break even.
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Evolution, thus, is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection. No longer is a fixed object transformed, as in transformational evolution, but an entirely new start is, so to speak, made in every generation.
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What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
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Life is strange. Every so often a good man wins.
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The first real thing I heard was Three O'Clock Blues by B.B. King. That's where it all began for me.
