I know why familles were created, with all their imperfections. They humanize you. They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.

--Anais Nin

"Wars in old times were made to get slaves.

The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt."

-- Ezra Pound(1885-1972)

American poet

Life is for Dancing

In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.

--George Balanchine

"Breadbaking is one of those almost hypnotic businesses, like a dance from some ancient ceremony. It leaves you filled with one of the world's sweetest smells...there is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel. that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread."

M. F. K. Fisher

The Art of Eating

“To feel safe and warm on a cold wet night, all you really need is soup.”

--Laurie Colwin

I enjoy convalescence.

It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

~~George Bernard Shaw

William Faulkner

“Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing,

I would choose pain.”