“More drama than a junior prom, a shotgun wedding, and a paternity test all rolled into one!”

“He took little Suzie to the Junior Prom.
Excitable boy, they all said.
And he raped her and killed her, then he took her home.
Excitable boy, they all said.”

“Learn to watch your drama unfold while at the same time knowing you are more than your drama.”

“I wish I was still an atheist. Believing I was born into a harsh, uncaring cosmos – in which my existence was a random roll of the dice and I was destined to die and rot and then be gone forever – was infinitely more comforting than the truth. Because the truth is that my God is coming back. When he arrives I’ll be waiting for him with a shotgun. And I’m keeping the last shell for myself.”

“We live in a world where the funeral matters more than the dead, the wedding more than love and the physical rather than the intellect. We live in the container culture, which despises the content.”

“No matter how deeply wedded one may be to the free enterprise system (and I, for one, am wedded for life), one has to accept the need for positive government; one has to consider government action on a sizable scale as desirable rather than as a necessary evil.”

“If heaven is the reason and dieing is the door, than why aren't we all leaving what's the drama for?”

“A single test which proves some piece of theory wrong is more valuable than a hundred tests showing that idea might be true.”

“O woman-country! wooed not wed,
Loved all the more by earth's male-lands,
Laid to their hearts instead.”

“The lady in the Rolls-Royce car is more damaging to morale than a fleet of Göring’s bombing planes.”