"I may be wicked, but I still gave an onion."--Dostoevsky
"It's just like the story of the grasshopper and the octopus. All year long the grasshopper kept burying acorns for winter while the octopus mooched off his girlfriend and watched TV. Then the winter came, and the grasshopper died, and the octopus ate all his acorns and also he got a racecar. Is any of this getting through to you?"--Futurama
"Who cares what psychiatrists write on walls?"
I have a few minor compulsions. The first is to arrange table settings at right degree angles. The second is to make useless lists. The third is to make self-deprecating observations in public places.
"Almost a Tao sign, they embrace with limbs luminous and stark, wedded by less but braced by design. The arch is their symbol: a strength made from two weaknesses."--Diane Ackerman. Preternaturally idoneous, innit?
