This feeling is not unlike the sinking in one's stomach when one is in an elevator that suddenly goes down, or when you are snug in your bed and your closet door suddenly creaks open to reveal the person who has been hiding there.

The last time I saw you I was trying to throw thumbtacks into your cradle!

They say in every library there is a single book that can answer the question that burns like a fire in the mind.

Blinded following the Blindfolded

Having a personal philosophy is like having a pet marmoset, because it may be very attractive when you acquire it, but there may be situations when it will not come in handy at all.

Chestnuts in stuffing tastes like someone chewed up a tree branch and then French-kissed it into your mouth.

They were almond cookies, although they could have been made of spinach and shoes for all I cared. I ate eleven of them, right in a row. It is rude to take the last cookie.