There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for. - Tom Robbins

A person can't make a career out of somebody else's invective.

Accept that you're a pimple and try to keep a lively sense of humor about it. That way lies grace — and maybe even glory.

On the campus of Outlaw College, professors of essential insanities would characterize the conflicting attitudes of Nina Jablonski and Leigh-Cheri as indicative of a general conflict between social idealism and romanticism. As any of the learned professors would explain, plied with sufficient tequila, no matter how fervently a romantic might support a movement, he or she eventually must withdraw from active participation in that movement because the group ethic — the supremacy of the organization over the individual — is an affront to intimacy. Intimacy is the principal source of the sugars with which this life is sweetened. It is absolutely vital to the essential insanities.