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Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.

Beauty is a whore, I like money better.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.

God creates dinosaurs, God kills dinosaurs, God creates man, man kills God, man brings back dinosaurs.

Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.

Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.

Discovery is always rape of the natural world. Always.

There's nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal.

The whole house seemed to exhale a melancholy breath of emptiness

True friends are those who came into your life, saw the most negative part of you, but are not ready to leave you, no matter how contagious you are to them.

Buy a gift for a dog, and you'll be amazed at the way it will dance and swerve its tail, but if don't have anything to offer to it, it won't even recognize your arrival; such are the attributes of fake friends.