“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.” - Isaac Asimov The bombing and shootings in Oslo was the news that we heard first thing...

“The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.” - Epicurus There seems to be some world-wide preoccupation with food presentl...

“Playing a robot is possibly the most difficult role you can have as an actor, because you have to take all your innate emotional responses...

“Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.” - Benjamin Franklin When the people closest to us are absent our lives suddenly become ...

“A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.” - Albert Camus It is becoming more and more depressing and distressing to ...

“Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.” - Benjamin Disraeli On Sunday, the weather started turning a l...

“Obscenity is not a quality inherent in a book or picture, but is solely and exclusively a contribution of the reading mind, and hence cann...

“Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air and sea, and...

“The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition.” - Thom...

“This is perhaps the most beautiful time in human history; it is really pregnant with all kinds of creative possibilities made possible by ...

“Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca I was in Brisbane for work today and it made for a long day consideri...

“A man’s interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.” - Henry David Thoreau ...

“Only after disaster can we be resurrected.” - Chuck Palahniuk Yesterday we watched John Hillcoat’s 2009 movie of the Pulitzer Prize-winn...

“A museum has to renew its collection to be alive, but that does not mean we give up important old works.” - David Rockefeller We are cur...

“Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!” - Wallace Stevens A beautiful fine and warm day today. We took the opportunity...

“Not what we have, but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.” – Epicurus I am quite relieved it’s Friday, as it has been a very busy ...

“O wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world! That has such people in it!” – William Sh...

“The land of dreams and romance, of fabulous wealth and fabulous poverty, of splendour and rags, of palaces and hovels, of famine and pesti...

“War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live toge...