The urge for Chinese food is always unpredictable: famous for no occasion, standard fare for no holiday, and the constant as to demand is either whim, the needy plebiscite of instantly famished drunks, or pregnancy.

Yellow is vagueness and luminousness, both.

I read passionately with a need to know and see the act of reading as an act of cognition and not simply a means of passing time.

Ordinary persons, he said, smiling, found no differences between men. The artist found them all.

I hate injustice, I despise inequity, I condemn hypocrisy, I abhor the lack of reason.

Faculty Meetings are held whenever the need to show off is combined with the imperative of accomplishing nothing.

We all end up living secret lives. We create what we are willing to admire and admiring what we shouldn't confess to the secret ofour own sin, our own insufficiency, our own sadness. We all end up taking our secrets into the world and handing them over to strangers, only to realize it's often too late to claim them back. The very nature of time passing is sad beyond words. Memories mean they're gone.