Soup not only warms you and is easy to swallow and to digest, it also creates the illusion in the back of your mind that Mother is there.

A new kind of award has been added -- the deathbed award. It is not an award of any kind. Either the recipient has not acted at all, or was not nominated, or did not win the award the last few times around. It is intended to relieve the guilty conscience of the Academy members and save face in front of the public. The Academy has the horrible taste to have a star, choking with emotion, present this deathbed award so that there can be no doubt in anybody's mind why the award is so hurriedly given. Lucky is the actor who is too sick to watch the proceedings on television.

Soup not only warms you and is easy to swallow and to digest, it also creates the illusion in the back of your mind that Mother is there.

one should be afraid of life, not of death.

Being in the depths of sadness is just as important an experience as being exuberantly happy.

In language gender is particularly confusing. Why, please, should a table be male in German, female in French, and castrated in English?

Champagne makes you feel like it's Sunday and better days are just around the corner.