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Griddle cakes, pancakes, hot cakes, flapjacks: why are there four names for grilled batter and only one word for love?
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A bad salesman will automatically drop his price. Bad salesmen make me sick.
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Science has rolled its war wagons over the crushed myths of so many religious beliefs. It has marshaled its mechanics to explain the motions of the sun, moon, and stars. It has mapped the heavens, leaving no place for gods to live.
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Don't be intimidated by what you don't know.
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I came to New York in 1986. My father didn't think it was a good idea. I didn't know how I found it, but I went to Hunter College. I had no money and I couldn't speak English.
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I hate deception, even where the imagination only is concerned.
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There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism.
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Will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament.
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We are each a concert reverberating with our whole lives and reflecting and amplifying the world around us.
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I went to lose a jolly hour on the trolley and lost my heart instead.
