Life is too tragic for sadness: Let us rejoice.

Tofu and futons. The adepts of Orientalism seem to spend most of their lives reclining. They can't quite summon the energy to crawl up onto a chair. Even their Yogic exercises are carried out in a prone or sitting position.

Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter.

The Proustian aquarium: grotesque and gorgeous fish drifting with languid fins through a subaqueous medium of pale violet polluted ink.

Death is every man's final critic. To die well you must live bravely.

The axiom of conditioned repetition, like the binomial theorem, is nothing but a piece of insolence.

In all of nature, there is no sound more pleasing than that of a hungry animal at its feed. Unless you are the food.