“In honor of October, really just hours away now.....Brew me a cup for a winter's night.For the wind howls loud and the furies fight;Spice it with love and stir it with care,And I'll toast our bright eyes,my sweetheart fair.”

“A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.”

“To be loved is to be fortunate, but to be hated is to achieve distinction.”

“Three failures denote uncommon strength. A weakling has not enough grit to fail thrice.”

“Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.”

“Let him hurl these pieces of toast like new and radical ideas that must be cast into the world. Pieces of toast like angry children who will hit us and upset us and change our ways of thinking and feeling.”

“I left the house at around midnight and crept up the driveway to the road. I wore canvas sneakers, athletic socks, safari shorts, a tee-shirt, and had the bright purple knapsack containing Jim's cold, hard foot, a garden trowel, a box of candles and matches to light them, a library copy of The Egyptian Book of the Dead, and some fig bars for a snack.”