Quotes

Advice

‘Never do the dishes without music,’ my brother Mark once advised me – the same brother who once ate a spoonful of refrigerated dog food to escape his turn at the kitchen sink. And really, it may be the most… Read More ›

Weight

From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.   Jacques Yves Cousteau Jacques-Yves Cousteau, (11 June 1910 – 25… Read More ›

Desperation

Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention.   Douglas Horton Douglas Horton (July 27, 1891, Brooklyn, New York – August 21, 1968, Randolph, New Hampshire) was an American Protestant clergyman… Read More ›

Seriousness

Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness are my closest friends.   Philip Roth Philip Milton Roth (March 19, 1933 – May 22, 2018) was an American novelist and short-story writer.  Roth’s fiction, regularly set in his birthplace of Newark, New Jersey,… Read More ›