I never meant to get involved with you, Adrien. Rest easy; you're not.

Like true philosophers I've come to believe that religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown after proper education.

People loved you in the way they knew how - and often it was not the way you knew. Or needed.

He needed fresh air and sunshine. A walk in the woods and afterward a good book to read by the fire. Yeah, that was the life.

Cops before breakfast.Before coffee even. As if Mondays weren't bad enough.

If there was one life skill everyone on the planet needed, it was the ability to think with critical objectivity

Rachel delivered it like an official pronouncement. Like she was one of the fairies gifting Sleeping Beauty's christening: Beauty. Intelligence. Heterosexual.

To find them all in one package...well, perhaps better not to dwell on his package in my fragile state.

I thought of the words of the Renaissance philosopher Michel de Montaigne. "If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

The only thing worse than opera is someone who hums along with opera.

I don't know if real courage lies in storming barricades or simply not denying the truth.

I do not go to the reunions though because it make me feel old

Video just accesses international information so much more readily.

What's a bar bill but a surtax on reality?

No matter what comes your way, shake it off and move forward. When you have a positive mindset, you can't be defeated.

More than a pleasant surprise, Danny Schmidt was no less than a revelation to me. And that's not a word I use lightly.

I appreciate life, talk a lot, love to laugh, and am very optimistic.

Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'.

Art is borne out of necessity. Music is a tool and men are doers. When a relationship is working, you don't need to write a song-you need to get toilet paper.

To be in Florence is to reflect on Europe's intricate diversity - and its lost creativity.

Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.