“If you define eccentricity as creativity, then yes, creativity is eccentricity.” - Russell Smith Erik Satie , original name in full Er...

“I want to have a good body, but not as much as I want dessert.” - Jason Love We had some people around to lunch today and as time was ...

“True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the contrary, an element calm and deep. It looks beyond mere externals, a...

“It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.” - Edmund Hillary This week, the Mid-Week Motif in Poets United  is “ Conquest ”. M...

“Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.” - Franz Kafka Welcome to the Travel Tuesday meme! Join me every Tuesday a...

“Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, he...

“I’m a Baroque person. More than Baroque, I’m a Rococo person. I don’t draw straight lines.” ― Nuno Roque François Boucher (born Sept...

“The flute is the true magical rod that changes all it touches in the inward world; an enchanter’s wand at which the secret depths of the...

“Walnuts have a shell, and they have a kernel. Religions are the same. They have an essence, but then they have a protective coating. Thi...

“Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them when I was a boy. Lord, there were a l...

“Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.” - Paulo Coelho For the Mid-week Motif this week, the folks at the Poets United site look at ...

"Scotland should be nothing less than equal with all the other nations of the world." - Sean Connery Welcome to the Travel Tu...

“The way to write a thriller is to ask a question at the beginning, and answer it at the end.” - Lee Child I like to watch movies, and ...

“A line is a dot that went for a walk.” - Paul Klee Paul Klee , (born Dec. 18, 1879, Münchenbuchsee, near Bern, Switz.—died June 29, 19...