Give me another horse: bind up my wounds. -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 3.

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.

I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck.

Our lady of the twilight She hath such gentle hands, So lovely are the gifts she brings From out of the sunset-lands, So bountiful, so merciful, So sweet of soul is she; And over all the world she draws Her cloak of charity.

Hung on the shower that fronts the golden West, The rainbow bursts like magic on mine eyes! In hues of ancient promise there imprest; Frail in its date, eternal in its guise.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Of herbs, and other country messes, Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses.

Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.

-Gon.

To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart, To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold For this the tragic Muse first trod the stage.

Curiosity . . . endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.

The individual is not a killer, but the group is, and by identifying with it the individual is transformed into a killer.

Drinking will make a man quaff, Quaffing will make a man sing, Singing will make a man laugh, And laughing long life doth bring, Says old Simon the King. - Unattributed Author, Old Sir Simon the King,

It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action.

Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.

History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play on the dead.

Flattery will get you everywhere.

Fairy Tale: A horror story to prepare children for the newspapers.

Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.

And thus I clothe my naked villany With old odd ends stolen out of holy writ, And seem a saint when most I play the devil. -King Richard III. Act i. Sc. 3.