"Everything for me becomes allegory." -Baudelaire, "Le Cygne"
"Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy." -Charlie McCarthy
"I think I mentioned to Bob [Geldof] I could make love for eight hours. What I didn't say was that this included four hours of begging and then dinner and a movie." -Sting
"Now more engrossed in hypnagogic literal mysteries of
our age and ages I propose
To reiterate how I love you any time" -Bernadette Mayer "Birthday Sonnet for Grace"
"In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language: the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it." -George Bernard Shaw
"You ain't gotta like me, You just mad cause I tell it how it is and you tell it how it might be. " -P. Diddy, "All About The Benjamins" Remix
"Sex is like art. Most of it is pretty bad, and the good stuff is out of your price range." -Scott Roeben
-Larry Bird to Reggie Miller on a time out:
"Reggie, get into the game."
"I'm into the game."
"No you're not, cause if you were into the game you'd be one for eleven instead of one for six."