New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.

New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions.

Adam was not alone in the Garden of Eden, however, and does not deserve all the credit; much is due to Eve, the first woman, and Satan, the first consultant.

It is an important thing, in our never-ending pursuit of happiness, to stop and just be happy for a while.

We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

Now I can only pray that there may be a God -- and a heaven -- or something better.