Nietzsche had a little one-liner on how to choose a wife. He said, ''Are you willing to have a conversation with this woman for the next forty years?'' That's how to pick a wife.

The gun made a ripping sound like the opening of a zipper on the fly of God Almighty.

Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?

If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I'm grateful that so many of those moments are nice.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

I am better now. Word of honour: I am better now.

To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.