Night Vision Quotes

“All of us live with our own demons, do penance in our private ways. We need our friends for support and advice, but we draw our strength from within.”
― Paul Levine, Night Vision

“Nobody knows something about everything.”
― Paul Levine, Night Vision

“Modern life is one sweeping, cradle-to-grave invasion of privacy. An encroachment on our ever-narrowing space. Our footprints in the sand are a billion bytes on a thousand hard drives. Fodder for the snoop and the historian alike.”
― Paul Levine, Night Vision

“I hit every red light for fifty blocks heading east toward Coconut Grove. They’re timed that way by our traffic planners, who might be getting kickbacks from the oil and tire companies.”
― Paul Levine, Night Vision

“If your theories prove to be a floccinaucinihilipilification.” “A flossy…what?” “Sorry. Such an ostentatious, academic word. If your theories prove to be valueless, where are you then?”
― Paul Levine, Night Vision

“We are a vain, greedy, and foolish people. We squander and spoil, befoul and defile. We take for granted the beauties and bounties of nature, but in the end nature will out. We will dry up or smoke out or choke on our own waste. In the end we will pay the ultimate price.”
― Paul Levine, Night Vision

“A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle”
― Paul Levine, Night Vision

“In the 21st century, we'll work at home and recycle our garbage into compost. The computer will link us with the office, the grocery store, and each other. Microscopic chips and scanners will transcribe details even the most astute biographer would overlook”
― Paul Levine, Night Vision

“If I were a bass, I’d want to be a tarpon,” I”
― Paul Levine, Night Vision

“I thought of Jack Nicholson telling Shirley MacLaine that a stiff drink “might kill the bug you got up your ass.” I thought of John Riggins, the great, wild running back of the Redskins, telling Justice Sandra Day O’Connor at a White House dinner to “loosen up, Sandy baby.”
― Paul Levine, Night Vision

“All of us live with our own demons, do penance in our private ways. We need other people for support, but we draw our strength from within. In the end, despite faith and friends, we are alone.”
― Paul Levine, Night Vision

“Man is never so foolish as when he fools himself.”
― Paul Levine, Night Vision

“Not much of a day for sight-seeing,” Pamela said, “but that’s Trafalgar Square off to the right.” I looked over my shoulder and caught sight of the National Gallery on one side and Buckingham Palace on the other and figured I had filled my culture quota for the trip.”
― Paul Levine, Night Vision

“negotiate.”
― Paul Levine, Night Vision

“studied”
― Paul Levine, Night Vision

“local TV”
― Paul Levine, Night Vision

“feel”
― Paul Levine, Night Vision

“on his own shoulder and lumber down the aisle between thirty-foot-high”
― Paul Levine, Night Vision

“made it”
― Paul Levine, Night Vision

“A doctor asks a patient how much he drinks and how often he has sex. To get the truth, multiply the former by two and divide the latter by three. The waiter brought our broiled snapper”
― Paul Levine, Night Vision

“undeserved guilt is just another form of indulgent self-pity.”
― Paul Levine, Night Vision

“All of us live with our own demons, do penance in our private ways. We need our friends for support and advice, but we draw our strength from within. In the end we are alone.”
― Paul Levine, Night Vision

“The retirees are gone from their plastic rockers on the front porches of the aging art-deco hotels. Hookers, dealers, pimps, chicken hawks, and runaways no longer stroll Ocean Drive, hustling their wares. The Yuppies have staked claims to South Beach, spiffing up the old buildings with turquoise and salmon paint, dressing themselves in bright, baggy cottons and silks, and hovering on the perimeter of perpetual trendiness.”
― Paul Levine, Night Vision