“Both terrorism and insurance sell fear -- and business is business”

“Several Terminal Policy readers got together to tell Raker jokes: - Raker CAN piss into the wind. - Raker donates a lot of blood to the Red Cross -- just never his own. - Superman wears Raker pajamas. - When Raker jumps into the pool, he doesn't get wet -- the pool gets Raker. - Why did the chicken cross the road? Because Raker THREW her there!! - Raker's daughter lost her virginity ... he got it back. - Raker doesn't cheat death, he wins fair and square. - Raker turns on a light at night … not because he's afraid of the dark but because the dark is afraid of him.- When the boogy man goes to bed he checks under his bed for Raker.- Don’t tread on Raker’s cape!”

“I've always had a strange fear of spoons.”

“It's impossible for a creative artist to be either a Puritan or a Fascist, because both are a negation of the creative urge. The only things a creative artist can be opposed to are ugliness and injustice.”

“You didn’t ask me for the moon.I would have wrapped the world around your shoulders. Harrowed hell or pillaged heaven. But you assumedI’d let you go, and trust you would return. The hours between stretched on the rack of your absence, amongst swift talking ladies’ men competing for your hand fear shuffled in the silence.Devotion didn’t cut me from the crowdbut love’s a cold and lonely place to stand.”

“I was born on a storm-swept rock and hate the soft growth of sun-baked lands where there is no frost in men's bones. ”

“When you want to talk about honor, they want to talk about money. When you want to talk about money, they want to talk about gentility. They either get the notion of honor or they don't. And if they don't, you probably shouldn't be fucking with them.”