Forgiveness... is something ever to strive for. --- Tom Giordano: Paradigm of Moral Virtue --- Keep your head down! This is bat country. --- "I'm just a fool who / Thought that Cthulhu / Could fall in love." --- Because life, my dear, is more than freezing toads. --- Permit me to teach you how to wage war. --- To seek Revenge may lead to Hell But everyone does it and seldom as well as --- Snorkel Bob Cares. --- "Si mi abuela tuviera dos ruedas, seria una bicicleta." --Leo Maza --- Bye, Bye, my American spies Drove my Chevy to Atlantis '\''cause Atlantis could fly And I went for help from the F. B. of I. Thinkin'\'' "This'\''ll be the day that I die"... --- We met as soulmates, on Paris Island; We left as inmates, from an asylum. --- Your love is better than ice cream Better than anything else that I can try --- "We'\''ve secretly replaced this Vorlon with Folger'\''s Crystals. Let'\''s see if anyone notices." --- How to be a Cultist, Rule No. 3: Never invoke anything bigger than your head. --- How to be a Cultist, Rule No. 19: During ritual sacrificing, taking bits home for later is now generally considered bad form. --- How to be a Cultist, Rule No. 12: If you gloat, reveal your plans, and leave the investigators to die slowly, don'\''t have the audacity to look surprised when they show up to foil you. --- How to be a Cultist, Rule No.13: Investigators always show up at the last minute to foil you. Start a half-hour early, they hate that. --- We held the day, In the palm of our hand; They ruled the night, And the night seemed to last as long as six weeks --- We came in spastic, like tameless horses We left in plastic, as numbered corpses --- We said we'\''d all go down together --- She can kill with her smile She can wound with her eyes --- Dynamite with a laser beam --- A word for the secret loneliness of salesmen --- Yesterday I saw lovers, hugging in the street Making everyone around them feel lonely But wasn'\''t a deferred loneliness waiting for them? --- When I become omnipotent, problems will fall away like the end of this simile. --Mike Person --- Too much love will kill you If you can'\''t make up your mind Torn between the lover And the love you leave behind --- Too much love will kill you Just as sure as none at all --- When you are up to your ass in alligators it is difficult to remind yourself your initial objective was to drain the swamp. --- Sorry, I gave up World Domination for Lent. --Mike Person --- I know what it means to be lonely And I know what it means to be free Now I want to know how to love you Return to me --- How did I lose you along the way? --- I am here calling the wind I am here calling your name I am here calling you back Return to me --- A man, a plan, a canoe, pasta, heros, rajahs, a coloratura, maps, snipe, percale, macaroni, a gag, a banana bag, a tan, a tag, a banana bag again (or a camel), a crepe, pins, Spam, a rut, a Rolo, cash, a jar, sore hats, a peon, a canal-- Panama! --- "I was the weak, dumb, obedient gang member with a chip on her shoulder and a desire to kill fish." -- Jen Murphy --- I have traveled the paths of desire Gathering flowers and carrying fire Raising a grave to the reasons behind me Looking for strength as you live to remind me --- I am crossing the bridges of sorrow Empty with yearning and full of tomorrow The river is high and the bridges are burning I know I'\''ve been hurt but I keep on returning --- I have traveled the paths of desire Following smoke and remembering fire The night is falling, the path is receding I don'\''t need to see it to know where it'\''s leading --- I am the fly who dreams of the spider --- A picture worth a thousand lies The memory and the mirror Nothing but what came before Nothing but a closing door --- Forget me soon Forget me Forget me now Forget me not --- A Perspective on Inflation: In July 1922, one American dollar was worth 493.2 German Marks; In November 1923, one dollar was worth 4.2 TRILLION Marks. --- Dark I grew in the house of my uncle, Dark I grew in his presence so black, Dark I grew as the years they passed by me, Dark I grew '\''til '\''twas no turning back. --- I am the Destroyer. I, the Wrecker of Worlds, I, the Rider of Lightning, As the Storm around me swirls. --- "Life is just a succession of the interceptions of quantum moose orbitals in the real plane. In other words, your life is being controlled by a batch of one-ton quadrupeds." --Dr. N. of Nevermore, from his new book Property Realignment and Other Honest Pursuits --- "Seems like, lately, everybody with four guys and a proton accelerator thinks they can rule the world. No offense." --- "Everything I want might be at Harvard." --Abbe Cohen --- The New Number Two --- Lee Organa aka Adam DiGriz --- Nicholas Falconbridge --- Dmitri Rorshakov Party Chief (RSFSR), Foreign Minister, CIA Agent and Good Guy --- Benedict Leader of the Red Knights (deceased) --- Cernas de Elfas (Dead Elf Meat) Winner of the "Avoid Your Own Fate" Award --- Daniel Dax, the Gadgeteer --- Eddie Bertucci, Chief of Police --- Dylan Matt, Last Living Human --- Zorath, Grand Vizier of Jamaharet --- Corky, aka Dr. Kecorkian Elf, D.D.S. --- Sandy Emberdon --- King Piedro de Torres of Dorado --- The Archmagus Mayor of Tzalmir, City of Kings --- George Papadapoulos, Chemist-- NOT! --- Robert van Helsing --- Simtai N'\''mat Time travelling Elder trying to become Omniscient (and summon Cthulhu) --- Count Hasimir Fenring, House Marik --- The Harvard Spy in Your Midst, Mk II --- "Nuclear access codes are like your toothbrush: Don'\''t share and change them often." --- "With luck, they may never find you, but if they do, you will know pain..." "...and you will know fear..." "...and then you will die. Have a pleasant flight." --G'\''Kar and Na'\''Toth to Tu'\''Pari, "The Parliament of Dreams" --- It is rare, indeed, for a man with cunning words and an ingratiating face to be benevolent. --Confucius, the Analects, Book I, no. 3 --- "Take good care of him; he'\''s one of the ten brightest minds in the country." "Someday I hope to be two of them." --- To be happy, and forever, you must see your wish come true. Don'\''t be careful, don'\''t be clever, when you see your wish, pursue. --- "When old friends get together, all else fades to insignificance." --War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death --- "Oh, the grand old Duke of York He had Ten Thousand Men He Marched them Up To The Top of The Hill And Crushed all the nations of the world and brought them under the Rule of Satan our master." --Good Omens --- It is said that the Devil has all the best tunes. This is broadly true, but Heaven has the best choreographers. --- Fortune rota volvitur; descendo minoratus; ater in altum tollitur; nimis exaltatus rex sedet in vertice- caveat ruinam! nam sub axe legimus Hecubam reginam. --- "It turns out all right, doesn'\''t it? In the end?" "Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends." --- Three meters of chrome and blades and other people'\''s pain. --- Paranoids are people, too; they have their own problems. It'\''s easy to criticize, but if everybody hated you, you'\''d be paranoid too. -- D. J. Hicks --- ---