Sleeping under a date palm tree in Teheran

We tend to like people who agree with us, even when they're stealing our silverware.

By the way, it was Romain Rolland and not Sigmund Freud who coined the term, 'oceanic feeling,' should you ever be asked who coined the term, 'oceanic feeling.'

When one comes to a certain age, one's clothes are as difficult to take off as they are to put on. Calcification is such a cruel fact that it might take 10 minutes or more to affix a simple sock to one's left foot. This also explains the recent phenomenon of older men who come to bed wearing leather jackets, and the women who love them.

Yesterday, in the panel discussion among artists and writers, it was noted by one writer that his best writing was always contained in what he'd forgotten. "Allow me to paraphrase," a voice spoke up from the audience. "I find that if I don't write something down I forget it, and if I forget it it's then that I know it's real genius."