All Acts Performed In The World Begin

How Do You Think It Would Feel To Be Obliged To Ask For A Seat-belt Extender On An Airplane? For The Unfashionably Bulgy, Life Is A Series Of Small Humiliations.

[on Werner Erhard, Founder Of Est:] If I Wanted A New Belief System, I'd Choose To Believe In God - He's Been In Business Longer Than Werner, And He Has Better Music.

Food Is My Drug Of Choice.

Grief Does Not End And Love Does Not Die And Nothing Fills Its Graven Place. With Grace, Pain Is Transmuted Into The Gold Of Wisdom And Compassion And The Lesser Coin Of Muted Sadness And Resignation; But Something Leaden Of It Remains, To Become The Kernel Arond Which More Pain Accretes (a Black Pearl): One Pain Becomes Every Other Pain ... Unless One Strips Away, One By One, The Layers Of Pain To Get To The Heart Of The Pain - And This Causes More Pain, Pain So Intense As To Feel Like Evisceration.

The Islands Of Italy Combine All The Elements - Fire, Water, Earth, And Air - And That Is Irresistible.