No man worth his salt, no man of spirit and spine, no man for whom I could have any respect, could rejoice in the identification o...f Tallulah's husband. It's tough enough to be bogged down in a legend. It would be even tougher to marry one.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
An expense of ends to means is fate;Morganization tyrannizing over character. The menagerie, or forms and powers of the spine, is ...a book of fate: the bill of the bird, the skull of the snake, determines tyrannically its limits.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Much of a man's character will be found betokened in his backbone. I would rather feel your spine than your skull, whoever you are.... A thin joist of a spine never yet upheld a full and noble soul.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Country of hunchbacks!--where the strong, straight spine Jeered at by crooked children, makes his way... Through by-streets at the kindest hour of day,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[Oliver North is a] document-shredding, Constitution-trashing, Commander in Chief-bashing, Congress-thrashing, uniform-shaming, Ay...atollah-loving, arms-dealing, criminal-protecting, résumé-enhancing, Noriega-coddling, Social Security-threatening, public school-denigrating, Swiss-banking-law-breaking, letter-faking, self-serving, election-losing, snake-oil salesman who can't tell the difference between the truth and a lie.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I went to the bookstore and God was not there. Doctor Faustus was baby blue with a Knopf dog... on his spine. He was frayed and threadbare with needing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »