What is a promiscuous person? It is usually someone who is getting more sex than you are. – Victor Lownes, Playboy, 1985

In the strict scientific sense we all feed on death — even vegetarians. – Spock from Star Trek, “Wolf in the Fold”

All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason. – John Henry Cardinal Newman

Vision may sometimes sleep in the sun, while it wakens to widest revelation in utter darkness. Thus I am rapt in a trance-like acceptance of opening cavernous depths, crypts of decyphered gloom, yielding hollows of velvet obscurity that go down, down to the roots of things. – Virginia Garland, “The Rain,” Out West: A Magazine of the Old Pacific and the Ne