Source: Watchmen
Under the Microscope (1872)
“Smile. it's the second best thing you can do with your lips.”
Source: Head Over Heels
"Skin on Skin", Lullabies to Paralyze (2005)
Lyrics, Queens of the Stone Age
“Truth sits upon the lips of dying men,
And falsehood, while I lived, was far from mine.”
"Sohrab and Rustum" (1853), lines 656-657
Each and All, st. 3
1840s, Poems (1847)
Variant: I wiped away the weeds and foam,
And fetched my sea-born treasures home;
But the poor, unsightly, noisome things
Had left their beauty on the shore
With the sun, and the sand, and the wild uproar.
Patheos, Anti-theist Answers to Christian Questions http://www.patheos.com/blogs/reasonadvocates/2015/11/22/anti-theist-answers-to-christian-questions/ (November 22, 2015)
Zardari at an interview of India Today, responding about his corruption charges http://m.indiatoday.in/story/asif-zardari-a-man-with-an-incredibly-attractive-personality/1/319298.html
Paris Review Interview (1990)
Context: I know when it’s the best I can do. It may not be the best there is. Another writer may do it much better. But I know when it’s the best I can do. I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, No. No, I’m finished. Bye. And leaving it alone. I will not write it into the ground. I will not write the life out of it. I won’t do that.
