“He passed the lighter down the table until Descartes held it in one hand while setting the greasy cylinder down on the table. After smoothing it out, Descartes sparked up the lighter. With the ligh...”

“Would you like to try some cocaine? Freud offered, I think you will find it picks you up quite nicely.No thanks, God declined, holding his soft hands up to show his resistance.”

“Whats the matter for you? You wanna see a stereotypa, suck on my Italian sausage andEinstein interrupted by leaping out of his chair, hovering over Da Vinci with his eyes as wide open as possible. ...”

“We should have smashed through the door long ago, grunted Thor. Everyone had always thought of Thor as Lennie from Of Mice and Men: too big and too slow. The chief difference being that while Lenny...”

“The hatred that I harbored for Lou and Paul faded into the background. The cold, lonely mountains which once filled my mouth and mind with the madness of Zarathustra shifted into a lithium passivit...”

“Well, that's not true. I need to work for a living.No, that's not true. You think you need to work like this because that's what you've been told. That is merely an idea put into your head. In actu...”

“I believe in my mask-- The man I made up is meI believe in my dance-- And my destiny”

“And yet, it was still a performance. Odin and I both knew it. It was a kind of play, a dream of how things might have been if he and I had been capable of trusting each other for a change. And so w...”

“Loki was trying to look serious, but even so, he was smiling at the corners of his mouth. It was not a reassuring smile.”

“There's also a lot of random stuff about poetry, flowers and lute music, plus kissing and cuddling (lots of this), wearing similar outfits, talking incessantly about the current object of devotion,...”

“...but there's always he'll want to torture your boss anyway. Just recreationally, I mean.""Wow that would be terrific," I said”

“I have one word to say upon the subject of profound writers, who are grown very numerous of late; and I know very well the judicious world is resolved to list me in that number. I conceive therefor...”

“Uh, excuse me, sir, I, uh, don't known how to uh, to uh, tell you this, but you were three minutes late. The schedule is a little, uh, bit off."He grinned sheepishly."That's ridiculous!" murmured t...”