When one is traveling, one must expect to spend a certain amount of money foolishly.

"There is no disputing about tastes," says the old saw. In my experience there is little else.

They're all so highly educated, you know. Education is a great shield against experience. It offers so much, ready-made and all from the best shops, that there's a temptation to miss your own life in pursuing the lives of your betters. It makes you wise in some ways, but it can make you a blindfolded fool in others.

Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.

No, it's the musicians and I must say they are an accomplished bunch, but odd, as musicians tend to be. Is it the vibration from their instruments, do you suppose, working on the brain? All that fraught buzzing?

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man.