Long, long ago, before eruptions were invented, the molten lava had to be carried down the mountainside, bucket by bucket, and poured over the sleeping villagers. This took time.

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.

I swallowed hard. It was my life. And it was my choice how I decided to live it.

To discover what becomes of men who do not pay debts owed to Ratilla, one must visit the underworld.

Your hearing status does not make you a better person. Your humanity does.

I think I rescued myself.

[Rumi] is trying to get us to feel the vastness of our true identity... like the sense you might get walking into a cathedral.

A sense of justice is a noble fancy.

I make myself suffer with a lot of self doubt.

Respect was earned, not demanded, but dignity was taught by example.

O to be a dragon, a symbol of the power of Heaven-of silk-worm size or immense; at times invisible. Felicitous phenomenon!

The waves of pain that had only lapped at me before now reared high up and washed over my head, pulling me under. I did not resurface.