Beauty n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

Author: Ambrose Bierce

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The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

The covers of this book are too far apart.

Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge of things without parallel.

Love is when two people know everything about each other and are still friends.

I love to travel, but hate to arrive.

Everything in the world is about sex, except sex. Sex is about power.

In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind.