Quotes from Alan Russell

Anna's breath was short, her mouth dry. She managed to say, "You make it all sound so awful." Elizabeth shook her head with regret. "I just gave you the best-case scenario.

Agonies are one of my changes of garments; I do not ask the wounded person how he feels...I myself become the wounded person.

Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. I voiced the same line: "Cry 'Havoc!'" I said, "And let slip the dogs of war.

He didn't want to think about the past, present, or future. He didn't want to feel bad, or feel anything, so he drank some more.

The world was amoral. To be idealistic was to ask to be blindsided,

There was no better time to intimidate than when waking someone from a deep sleep.

Studies have shown that an endorphin-like peptide in chocolate works like morphine on the brain. You can even argue that chocolate

Pullman shook his head and patted his pack. "Why do you think my AWOL bag goes everywhere with me? I've got everything but my pickle suit inside, including my own CSS scope." "What's a CSS scope?" "Can't see shit," he said.

Studies have shown that an endorphin-like peptide in chocolate works like morphine on the brain. You can even argue that chocolate is a drug, but it's hard to do so when your mouth is full.

There's a reason the trees are nicknamed nuke-alyptus. Few trees have as much oil in them as eucalyptuses. They're highly flammable, so much so that during fires they sometimes explode.

Prepare for war, I thought, and pray for peace.

A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day.

There have been several recent studies on oxytocin—the so-called love hormone—that show humans experience increased oxytocin levels whenever we gaze into the eyes of dogs. Canines also exhibit increased oxytocin levels.

Most kids grow up wanting to work with animals. There's a good reason for that. The alternative is to work with humans.

an actor friend of mine calls the 'John Wayne status.' " "What's that?" The question brought a small smile to her face. "Wayne never performed until he finished his morning's business. Usually, he was regular. But every so often, he was stymied. Sometimes there would be hundreds of people on the set milling about for hours, waiting for one man to have a bowel movement.

To Aristotle, who said the antidote to fifty enemies was one friend.

brought back memories of that night. Truth serum. His captors

Beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam,

There are very few things you can really do [to promote] healthy aging ... and none of these things include an insurance system or a legal system. All those things do is change who pays.