The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable.

Shrapnel was invented by an Englishman of the same name. Don't you wish you could have something named after you?

Make war not on terrorism but on ignorance, on sickness and on environmental degradation.

Before you kill somebody, make absolutely sure he isn't well connected. So it goes.

Extenuating circumstance to be mentioned on Judgment Day: We never asked to be born in the first place.

Perhaps I am the turtle, able to live simply anywhere, even underwater for short periods, with my home on my back.

Anyway -- because we are readers, we don't have to wait for some communications executive to decide what we should think about next -- and how we should think about it. We can fill our heads with anything from aardvarks to zucchinis -- at any time of night or day.