I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me.

I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me.

Florida isn't so much a place where one goes to reinvent oneself, as it is a place where one goes if one no longer wished to be found.

Below a certain point, if you keep too quiet, people no longer see you as thoughtful or deep; they simply forget you.

In Canada, when we speak of water, we're speaking of ourselves. Canadians are known to be unextravagant, and one explanation of this might be that we know that wasted water means a diminished collective soul; polluted waters mean a sickened soul. Water is the basis of our self-identity, and when we dream of canoes and thunderstorms and streams and even snowballs, we're dreaming about our innermost selves.

just then a bee bumbled above us and stole our attention the way flying things can

There's nothing cute or funny or lovable about being cheap. It's a total turn-off.