“She wore a short skirt and a tight sweater and her figure described a set of parabolas that could cause cardiac arrest in a yak.”

“There's nothing like the discovery of an unknown work by a great thinker to set the intellectual community atwitter and cause academics to dart about like those things one sees when looking at a drop of water under a microscope.”

“Life is short. Short, and not about anything except what you can touch and what touches you.”

“I'm short enough and ugly enough to succeed on my own.”

“Why not? Life is short, life is dull, life is full of pain - and this is a chance for something special.”

“I asked the girl if she could bring a sister for me. She did. Sister Maria Teresa. It was a very slow evening. We discussed the New Testament. We agreed that He was very well adjusted for an only child.”

“The difference between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes it.”