They fell asleep smiling. It is to erase the fixed smiles of sleeping couples that Satan trained roosters to crow at five in the morning.

Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need.

Plato did claim that the unexamined life was not worth living. Oedipus Rex was not so sure.

Rap music... sounds like somebody feeding a rhyming dictionary to a popcorn popper.

The oyster was an animal worthy of New Orleans, as mysterious and private and beautiful as the city itself. If one could accept that oysters build their houses out of their lives, one could imagine the same of New Orleans, whose houses were similarly and resolutely shuttered against an outside world that could never be trusted to show proper sensitivity toward the oozing delicacies within.

Survival is not important. What matters is how you survive.

Of course I'm inconsistent! Only logicians and cretins are consistent!