Yo, bredren, we be the illest, ' went my proclamation. 'We be the dopest, ' Anand would follow. 'Our tunes are going to be good, ' Nishant would finish with.

Anand finished up his cola cube transaction. I stepped up and slammed three pound coins on the counter like an oppressed inner-city youth born with the skills of rhythm and rhyme.

Remember thee? Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seatin this distracted globe. Remember thee?

She's beauty and she's the beast, rolled into one.

I still like to see that a man opens the door. I like those touches of chivalry that are fast disappearing. If I sound old-fashioned, it's because I'm as old as I am! But it's just polite.

Life is a near-death experience.

It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.

Be careful crossing above the waterfall, it's a fatal spot.

An educational foundation is only part of the equation. In order for creativity to flourish and imagination to take hold, we also need to expose our children to the arts from a very young age.

Pollution is a necessary result of the inability of man to reform and transform waste.

Beside the brook and on the umbered meadow, Where yellow fern-tufts fleck the faded ground, With folded lids beneath their palmy shadow The gentian nods in dewy slumbers bound.

As for me, Poetry takes the place of love, because it is enamored of itself, and because this self-lust has a delightful dying fall in my soul.