Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris.

Lawyers may reason powerfully, but power settles most issues.

The bathroom scale knows nothing of extenuating circumstances.

Innocence: I am only stepping on your face because it lies in my path.

Ideology has shaped the very sofa on which I sit.

The poor live slow and hard; the rich, fast and easy. The rest of us shuffle along as we may.

Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.