Man, everyone’s gay once in a while.
For there’s no man in town half as manly
Perfect, a pure paragon!
It isn’t what you are, it’s what you don’t become that hurts. Idealism is a luxury for the very young.
When I grow up
I will be tall enough to reach the branches
That I need to reach to climb the trees
You get to climb when you’re grown up
If growing up means it would be
Beneath my dignity to climb a tree,
I won’t grow up!
We pruned the hedges of many small villages!
There is no fence nor hedge around time that is gone. You can go back and have what you like of it, if you can remember.
Over the Hedge
We’re painting the roses red.
A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H… Hookers! Hookers, hookers, hookers…
Hiya, Hooker. You getting married or something?
Some men get the world. Others get ex-hookers and a trip to Arizona.
If not Arizona, then a land not too far away. Where all parents are strong and wise and capable and all children are happy and beloved. I don’t know. Maybe it was Utah.
We are not a sunshiny people. We’re not a paradise people or a beach people. We are dark people. People who believed it could be worse. And we’re waiting for it to become worse.
Life is good in Los Angeles. It’s paradise on Earth.
Some of these buildings are over 20 years old.
Now, you know there’s no sure way for us to fight a fire in anything over the seventh floor, but you guys just keep building 'em as high as you can.
Have I failed to meet city building and safety codes?
No wonder everyone calls you
Failure Face.
They call me MISTER Tibbs.