To every rule there is an exception—and an idiot ready to demonstrate it. Don't be the one!

When hope is fleeting, stop for a moment and visualize, in a sky of silver, the crescent of a lavender moon. Imagine it -- delicate, slim, precise, like a paper-thin slice from a cabochon jewel. It may not be very useful, but it is beautiful. And sometimes it is enough.

A boomerang returns back to the person who throws it.

To every rule there is an exception—and an idiot ready to demonstrate it. Don't be the one!

Respect the young and chastise your elders. It's about time the world was set aright.

Don't let a loud few determine the nature of the sound. It makes for poor harmony and diminishes the song.

I technically live in the desert - Los Angeles being an artificial oasis - but my interest stems even farther to my own ethnic roots and to my love of antiquity, of the Old World and of the east.