Category: Aphorisms

It’s true that dreams are like rivers: Both are beautiful, and both can drown you.

If it had never been destroyed, the world would not care about Pompeii.

Just because someone has never been born, has never breathed, has never taken a first step or spoken a first word, has never experienced the glory and agony of a formal education, has never grown up into a maladjusted adult with an uninspiring job, has never paid taxes and memorized a social security number, has never worried about the future and the meaning of it all, and will never need to face the quietus of death, that doesn’t mean that person has never lived.

Language is monogamous, but words are polyamorous.

Every sea-wreaked ship aspires to be a future tabernacle in a coastal chapel.

If someone ever asks you what you do for a living, you’re within your rights to say, “Just living the dream.”

When the air is thick with the smell of impending rain, that’s the time to grab an umbrella and go to a museum.

To see how little humans know, read the futuristic predictions made 100 years ago by the world’s smartest men.

If you’re rich, never bet with the poor. If you’re poor, never bet.

The best bookmarks are ticket stubs from concerts, movies, and baseball games. Discarded to-do lists with everything crossed out. Photographs of you with loved ones. The queen of spades with the folded edge from what once was your favorite deck of cards. Tokens. Memories of distant days and maybe better times. The worst bookmarks are bookmarks.