Mayonnaise, like hollandaise, was invented by the French to cover up the flavor of spoiled flesh, stale vegetables, rotten fish. Beware the sauce! Where food comes beslobbered with an elegant slime you may well suspect the integrity of the basic ingredients.

Most of what we call the classics of world literature suggest artifacts in a wax museum. We have to hire and pay professors to get them read and talked about.

Freedom begins between the ears.

Life is too tragic for sadness: Let us rejoice.

By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century.

Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?

When I hear the word 'culture', I reach for my checkbook.