I have been told the best things in life are free ~ I found them very expensive.

Upon the publication of Goethe’s epic drama, the Faustian legend had reached an almost unapproachable zenith. Although many failed to appreciate, or indeed, to understand this magnum opus in its entirety, from this point onward...

… what you think is right isn’t the same as knowing what is right.

Since art is considered a noble field, art should be used to promote all that is good and noble, and in a noble fashion.

There is much to discover that’s not on the back cover!

The Scorpion?The Grasshopper?Which way will she go?

So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.

If a man cannot serve two masters, neither can Christianity, or several thousand of them as the case may be.

True beauty lies not upon gilded veneers,But found in the soul within.

…they say if you don’t vote, you get the government you deserve, and if you do, you never get the results you expected.

… true evil needs no reason to exist, it simply is and feeds upon itself.

… The Book is more important than your plans for it. You have to go with what works for The Book ~ if your ideas appear hollow or forced when they are put on paper,...

If you want to keep people happy, just keep the food and entertainment rolling.

Thought for the day: Twitter…140 character limit…must be a great tool for fortune cookie writers…

#Twitter: proudly promoting ghastly grammar and silly misspelling since 2006.

You cannot hinder someone’s free will, that’s the first law of the Universe, no matter what the decision.

While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.

If you cannot judge a book by its cover, surely we should not judge an author by one book alone?

If Erik existed and lived life in despair,We wish him to know we are here and we care.

Falling in love is very real, but I used to shake my head when people talked about soul mates, poor deluded individuals grasping at some supernatural ideal not intended for mortals but sounded pretty in...

You can’t enjoy art or books in a hurry.

Yet, beauty cannot be forgotten,Eternal Wisdom can never die …

If there are damned souls in Hell, it is because men blind themselves.

… you’ll have to fall in love at least once in your life, or Paris has failed to rub off on you.

Socrates: Have you noticed on our journey how often the citizens of this new land remind each other it is a free country? Plato: I have, and think it odd they do this.Socrates: How so,...

Editors can be stupid at times. They just ignore that author’s intention. I always try to read unabridged editions, so much is lost with cut versions of classic literature, even movies don’t make sense when...

It’s a shame there has to be a tragedy before the best in people will finally shine.

Democracy was supposed to champion freedom of speech, and yet the simple rules of table decorum could clamp down on the rights their forefathers had fought and died for.

… insanity is never reasonable.

Make your lives a masterpiece, you only get one canvas.

… food is not simply organic fuel to keep body and soul together, it is a perishable art that must be savoured at the peak of perfection.

… a man doesn’t like to have his ego popped, especially when he prides himself on his sagacity, and then to be proved wrong by a man who claims he doesn’t know anything.

Now Leroux, what think youOf this twist to the story?

Love, like everything else in life, should be a discovery, an adventure, and like most adventures, you don’t know you’re having one until you’re right in the middle of it.

I am an artist you know … it is my right to be odd.

When in doubt, throw doubt out and have a little faith….

… love for our neighbours does not die the minute we enter heaven, it intensifies.

… far be it from a French man to interfere with love.

There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious setting of the kitchen table.

When Hitler marched across the RhineTo take the land of France,La dame de fer decided,‘Let’s make the tyrant dance.’Let him take the land and city,The hills and every flower,One thing he will never have,The elegant...

Isn’t it strange how people are selective about the truth the want to see or hear?

Finding a taxi, she felt like a child pressing her nose to the window of a candy store as she watched the changing vista pass by while the twilight descended and the capital became bathed...

You cannot sodomize a Sacrament and expect God to say, ‘Well done.