“There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconce...

"Too many people just eat to consume calories. Try dining for a change." – John Walters As I wrote yesterday, on Wednesday nigh...

“Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune.” - Giuseppe Garibaldi Last night we had a work function and dinner at the National Wine Cent...

“People don’t come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.” - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. I am in Adelaide for work for a...

“The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.” - Ralph W. Sockman Toda...

“A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.” - James Feibleman Growing up as a child in Greece I was surrounded by history...

“They are sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing.” - William Shakespeare Today is World Diabetes Day , quite a...

“Don’t threaten me with love, baby. Let’s just go walking in the rain.” - Billie Holiday We are having a very wet weekend with lots of ra...

“I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.” - Sa...

“Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson Today is Remembrance Day , with the eleventh hour of...

“Plaisir d'amour ne dure qu'un moment; Chagrin d'amour dure toute la vie.” - Jean de Florian (1755–1794) The joys of love are...

“We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.” – Joan Didion Coming home on the train this evening I read a news s...

“He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster.” - Friedrich Nietzsche We watched the 2009 Niels Arden O...

“The artist does not see things as they are, but as he is.” - Alfred Tonnellé For Art Sunday today, Caravaggio – or to give him his corr...

“Gratitude… For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends, For ever...

“Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light” - Maurice Freehill At work today, an Indian colleague ...

“Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.” - Max Frisch I read in the paper today that ...

“Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.” - Fyodor Dostoyevsky I have had a very busy day today with m...

“And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right and honour and peace, until the gods are tired of bl...

“Time in its irresistible and ceaseless flow carries along on its flood all created things and drowns them in the depths of obscurity.” - A...