Educating a beautiful woman is like pouring honey into a fine Swiss watch: everything stops.

The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn't going to compose Beethoven's Fifth.

For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the Beatitudes (Matthew 5). But, often with tears in their eyes, they demand that the Ten Commandments be posted in public buildings. And of course, that's Moses, not Jesus. I haven't heard one of them demand that the Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes, be posted anywhere. "Blessed are the merciful" in a courtroom? "Blessed are the peacemakers" in the Pentagon? Give me a break!

in nonsense is strength

A lover's a liar, To himself he lies, The truthful are loveless, Like oysters their eyes!

And what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like "Poo-tee-weet?

I still catch myself feeling sad about things that don’t matter anymore.