“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea”
/Antoine de Saint-Exupery/
Cecile Andrews on Slow is Beautiful: New Visions of Community, Leisure, and Joie de Vivre.

The Day the Saucers Came
Neil Gaiman
That day, the saucers landed. Hundreds of them, golden,
Silent, coming down from the sky like great snowflakes,
And the people of Earth stood and stared as they descended,
Waiting, dry-mouthed to find what waited inside for us
And none of us knowing if we would be here tomorrow
But you didn’t notice it because
That [...]

“As my mother would say: “God love him, but he is a raging maniac”…… that is one handy line, I’m sure to use in the future.

Of faltering windmills and warriors from my sister:
Perhaps I did miss the occasional twitter
Of a bluebird, as I have been bitter
For the past eight years
A person of endless wisdom had said
You don’t really die kid, until you drop dead
And I have decided to change
Shit will always wash in with the tide
Whether you take life with [...]

In a Tokyo Hotel:
Is forbidden to steal hotel towels please. If you are not a person to do such thing is please not to read notice.
In a Bucharest hotel lobby:
The lift is being fixed for the next day. During that time we regret that you will be unbearable.
In a Leipzig elevator:
Do not enter the lift [...]

I’m presently reading Peter Hitchens’s The Abolition of Liberty. Seldom do I some across a book I can’t put down, but this one has made me an instant fan of Hitchens. His criticism of England could have been written of Hungary as well. He is the voice of the common sense we are taught to [...]

Végső lefáradásomban kedvenc bloggerünk szösszeneteit elemezgettem. Az eklektikus stílus kavalkád, amely hol pátosszal rendít meg, hol gyermekes vidámsággal kacagtat, hol idilli miniatűrökkel festi le a legapróbb eseményeket, hol grandiózus terveket vizionál egyszerűen briliáns. Ám ami a szavaknak valódi értéket kölcsönös, az a tiszta őszinte hang. Gyerünk barátaim, nézzük meg közelebbről, mit tud e hálátlan évezred [...]

Three words: Vice President Oprah

– Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try.
- The only monster here is the gambling monster that has enslaved your mother! I call him Gamblor, and it’s time to snatch your mother from his neon claws!
- When I look at the smiles on all the children’s faces, [...]

“Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.”
“I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it’s the government.”
“There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?”
“Love is the answer, but while you’re waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty interesting questions.”
“A [...]