Only exceptional rational men can afford to be absurd.

Only exceptionally rational men can afford to be absurd.

Only the exceptionally equanimous person can allow himself to be absurd

Death Row is a lonely place. Silence echoes through the walls with as much force as a cannon being fired in the Grand Canyon.

Sometimes the books most restrained about sex, even deeply scandalized by it, can whisper to us with the greatest hidden force. I am a huge admirer of the recently deceased, always underranked Evan S. Connell.

What was taken by force, can only be restored by force.