Intimacy is the principal source of the sugars which this life is sweetened!

Poetry, the best of it, is lunar and is concerned with the essential insanities. Journalism is solar (there are numerous newspapers named The Sun, none called The Moon) and is devoted to the inessential.

Eating a raw oyster is like french kissing a mermaid.

It is what it is. You are what you it. There are no mistakes.

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

The Japanese have become so smitten with the Western condiment - its texture as silky as a kimono, its tang as understated as the tang of Zen - that today they have a word for mayonnaise junkie: mayora.

The Middle Ages hangs over history's belt like a beer belly. It is too late now for aerobic dancing or cottage cheese lunches to reduce the Middle Ages. History will have to wear size 48 shorts forever.