People aren't trees, so it is false when they speak of roots.

I'll follow him to the ends of the earth,' she sobbed. Yes, darling. But the earth doesn't have any ends. Columbus fixed that.

The beet is the most intense of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent, not of passion. Tomatoes are lusty enough, yet there runs through tomatoes an undercurrent of frivolity. Beets are deadly serious.

He who jokes in the executioners face can be destroyed, but never defeated.

A hamburger is an icon of layered circles, the circle being at once the most spiritual and the most sensual of shapes.

There are people in this world who can wear whale masks and people who cannot, and the wise know to which group they belong.

More immediately, by waxing soulful you will have granted yourself the possibility of ecstatic participation in what the ancients considered a divinely animated universe. And on a day to day basis, folks, it doesn't get any better than that.