There is a water soluble sugar that is in beans called oligosaccharides and they are indigestible by human beings. They ferment during the digestion process and hence you have gas.

All the time we wondered and wondered, who is this person coming/growing/turning/floating/swimming deep, deep inside.

To hunger is to be alive and to hope.

[it's about] being bitter but patient with your own bitterness so you could learn to be wise and be kind of returned to whatever innocence you might have once had before you became bitter.

Men’s greatest weakness is their facade of strength, and women’s greatest strength is their facade of weakness.

It seems to me that psychology is only another word for what the ancients called fate.

[M]y grandmother and I sit across from each other at the Gryphon Tea Room, on the grandest section of Bull Street.

There is no shortage of despicable law enforcement departments in the USA.

I hope young athletes can imitate my good side only, not the bad side.

The minute you walk through the door and your kid runs into your arms, you're smacked in the face with a dose of reality: It's like, this is my real life.

The poet and the painter are only truly great by the mutual influences of their studies, and the jealousy of glory has only produced an idle contest.

That's what the internet is: it's like bombarding your eyeballs with these myriad blinking colour lights. It's like trying to watch a movie on your phone in the middle of Times Square.

A churlish courtesy rarely comes but either for gain or falsehood.

He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious.