It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.

You should definitely visit the Louvre, a world-famous art museum where you can view, at close range, the backs of thousands of other tourists trying to see the Mona Lisa.

Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.

Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.

Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.

It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate.

Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.

The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.

Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once.

Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.

Love forever, love is free

It behooves me to remember as I advance in age that death is an inevitable part of the life cycle rather than a medical failure.

All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.

When you've been touched by sadness and grief, it makes you vulnerable. And because I am vulnerable, I try to be positive. And when I say 'try, ' I really do mean try, because it's an effort.

And of course there is nothing better than wearing the same T-shirt for days and not brushing my hair for weeks.

The use of anthropomorphic terminology forces you linguistically to adopt an operational view. And it makes it practically impossible to argue about programs independently of their being executed.

Courtesy dictates that we offer fellow wizards the opportunity of denying us entry.

Freemasonry, Judaism, and Occultism, whose alliance and reciprocal interpretation no longer require demonstration.

But while we can never predict where events will take us or the unavoidable bills we will have to pay as a consequence, we must confront the ghastly truth of Labour's legacy.

We proceed by doubt, by trial and error, by resisting the impulse to lunge after certainty.