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When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look at the forest.

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

I make love like a leprechaun, and I cuddle like a rainbow—after a shower.

Who Moved My Choose?: An Amazing Way to Deal With Change by Deciding to Let Indecision Into Your Life

Until we get it right, we shall return to the earth-school time after time.

From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

The self-esteem one acquires and a well-earned feeling of one's strength are the only consolation in this world. Income, after all, most brutes have that.

The Writings of a Savage

After the first couple weeks, when all your sex toys had met all my sex toys, ...

What Do Lesbians Do in Bed?: 21 Sapphic Stories

We walked back to iDEATH, holding hands. Hands are very nice things, especially after they have travelled back from making love.

In Watermelon Sugar

If you lose someone, you feel a loss, then after a while you fill in the hole in your life and the loss gradually gets smaller and smaller and eventually goes away. There's a point to the pain. There's a reason and a direction.

Watermelon

[In 16th century European society] Marriage was the triumphal arch through which women, almost without exception, had to pass in order to reach the public eye. And after marriage followed, in theory, the total self-abnegation of the woman.

Wives of Henry VIII

I sat next to a salmon on the sofa. After ten minutes of bear-like conversation, it was dead. Oh well, at least surrealism is still alive.

Whenever You're Gone, I'm Here For You

With a person I respect, I wash my hands before I shake their hand. With a person I don’t respect, I wash my hands after I shake their hand.

Whenever You're Gone, I'm Here For You

I could open my mail, but isn’t the mystery more fun? So you see, I’m not disorganized after all. I’m a romantic.

Whenever You're Gone, I'm Here For You

You can never be too early to stand around and wait. You can have a seat in this chair, after I cinch the noose around my neck and you kick it out from under my legs.

Xazaqazax

The best place to store your weapons safely is in your enemy’s hands. It is in your best interest to be defenseless while your rulers have all the weapons. After all, the government knows what’s best for you.

Xazaqazax

But it seems she’d wanted children after all, because when she was told she’d been accidentally sterilized she could feel all the light leaking out of her.

The Year of the Flood

She was quick of mind and swift of tongue, always ready to answer a set down with the kind of witty rebuke most of us can think of only long after the moment of insult has passed.

Year of Wonders

After I’m famous, I want my statue to be made out of beige Jell-O, and I want to be portrayed naked, so my genitals jiggle in the wind.

A Zebra is the Piano of the Animal Kingdom

Don’t bother calling the cops, because nobody can find me here. I know, because after all these years, I’m still trying to find myself.

A Zebra is the Piano of the Animal Kingdom

There is no certain way that exists permanently... Moment after moment we have to find our own way.

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

My favorite cure for boredom is sleep. It's very easy to get to sleep when bored and very hard to get bored after a long rest.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

I'm named after a horse. My mom's best friend had a horse named Brooke, so my dad suggested 'Brooklyn' as a more formal version, and it just stuck - and now I live in Brooklyn part-time, so go figure.

Brooklyn Decker

We can choose a future where we export more products and outsource fewer jobs. After a decade that was defined by what we bought and borrowed, we're getting back to basics, and doing what America has always done best: We're making things again.

Barack Obama