Running the big rapids is like sex: half the fun lies in the anticipation. Two thirds of the thrill with the approach. The remainder is only ecstasy-or darkness.
Grand opera is a form of musical entertainment for people who hate music.
One word is worth a thousand pictures. If it's the right word.
Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits.
Women truly are better than men. Otherwise, they'd be intolerable.
Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our antimaterialist, otherworldly, New Age, spiritual types. But if the material world is merely illusion, an honest guru should as content with Budweiser and bratwurst as with raw carrot juice, tofu, and seaweed slime.