The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If I ever get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.
ALGERNON. Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read,
"Excitable little fellow," said Gandalf, as they sat down again. "Gets funny queer fits, but he is one of the best, one of the best – as fierce as a dragon in a pinch." If you have ever seen a dragon in a pinch, you will realize that this was only poetical exaggeration applied to any hobbit...
Weren't we all crazy in our sleep? What was sleep, after all, but the process by which we dumped our insanity into a dark subconscious pit and came out on the other side ready to eat cereal instead of the neighbor's children?
Really, now: If you can't get me my newspaper on time, how can you expect me to refrain from killing people?
Shot Dunyun: Rant Casey used to say, "No matter what happens, it's always now . . ." Talk about cryptic. I think what Rant meant was, we live in the present moment of reality, and no matter what's come before, no matter how much we loved a person or a dog, when it attacks us we'll react to that moment of danger.
Rant Casey on DRVR Radio Graphic Traffic: " . . . What if reality is nothing but some disease?"
Rant goes, "Really truly with her whole entire heart, does Echo hate somebody?" [Shot goes], doesn't Rant mean "love"? And Rant shrugs and says, "Ain't it the same thing?"