Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, said Browning, and so it has - extended by the length of an artist's brush.

Man is rated the highest animal, at least among all animals who returned the questionnaire.

Love is at first a set of delusions, which, as time goes by, are discarded like training wheels, and you love truly.

There is a lesson we learn early and harmlessly, or late and traumatically - that there are things we can break that our parents can't fix.

A bottle of wine Still to be drunk, A bundle of thoughts Still to be thunk.

The clash between child and adult is never as stubborn as when the child within us confronts the adult in our child.

To accept reality is only to encourage it.