If the mattress stains were anything to go by, a previous user had not so much suffered from incontinence as rejoiced in it.

Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by a three-year-old.

Finally, this being America, there is the constant possibility of murder.

. . . chasing after words like trying to grab the tails of comets.

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

The world needs more love and Twitter just figured out a way to send 'hearts all over the world'.

It was then I thought of Corsica, the place we had discovered together. I craved the wind, the sun and salt, the simplicity of the island.

I'm an oddity of one, my strangeness too complicated to explain or share.

My body wasn't made to look good in a string bikini. It was made to feed and nurture a child.

It is the mind that shapes the body

Keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life.

I'm pretty content with what I have, but the one thing that I don't have is something like the iPod - but PC-based. I think that would be cool.

It is the duty of every person to contribute in the development and progress of India.