Soma Catherine Quotes & Sayings

Dealing with the Hippie is generally straightforward. His childlike nature will usually respond positively to drugs, sex, and/or rock and roll, although in which order these are to be deployed must depend on conditions specific to the moment. — Thomas Pynchon

There was a small glass vase between us, three gladioli in a few ounces of water. One of the gladioli had dropped a petal- brushstroke of purple on fine white cloth. Rinpoche drank the last sip of his tea, then set the cup aside, took the petal with his thumb and second finger, placed it on the middle of the saucer in front of him, and turned the cup upside down to cover it.
"I feel a lesson coming on," I said ...
"The flower is the good inside every person," he said. "The cup is like a wall, to protect. Many people have that wall."
"Armor" I said. He nodded.
"Why?"
"Because to live without the cup means you must feel the world as the world really is. — Roland Merullo

Events are less important than our responses to them. — John Hersey

institution, poor mite." Lloyd had heard how the baby had been delivered by eleven-year-old Carla. That little girl — Ken Follett

I'm a devotee of Stephen Sondheim. I think he's a genius. — Kenneth Branagh

We trust - I'll tell you what we trust that fouls us up, Roy; it's our goddamn superior intelligence! — Philip K. Dick

If we must encounter each other, let's do it the old way - in the dark, by the fire, our breaths bated, the world a big black mystery beyond us. — Meghan Tifft

Dave hung up. And unplugged the phone. With a fierce and bitter pain he stared at it, watching how, over and over again, it didn't ring. — Guy Gavriel Kay

Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order, — William J. Bennett

Franz could not accept that the fact that the glory of the Grand March was equal to the comic vanity of its marchers. — Milan Kundera

If we take the world's enduring religions at their best, we discover the distilled wisdom of the human race. — Huston Smith