"It is there, where they burn books, that eventually they burn people."Heinrich HeineContain some spoilers for the Harry Potter books.I am reminded of the uproar I lived through over the Har… Read More

"There's letters seal'd, and my two schoolfellows,Whom I will trust as I will adders fang'd—They bear the mandate, they must sweep my wayAnd marshal me to knavery.Let it work; For 'tis… Read More

"If you still say 'It's Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve' as an argument against gay marriage you need to Adam and leave."UnattributedThere is a particularly deplorable kind of anti-gay argu… Read More

"In the strict scientific sense we all feed on death - even vegetarians."Mr. SpockFor the longest time, more out of pure laziness than any other excuse, I have taken the word of a vegan acqu… Read More

"I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better. They fight for honor at the first challenge, make love with no mora… Read More

"Today is my 111th birthday. 111 years is far too short a time to live among such excellent and admirable Hobbits. I don't know half of you half as well as I should like. And I like less tha… Read More

"All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed. For after all, he was only human. He wasn't a dog."Charles M. Schulz"I want a dog," Cheryl said and that made me r… Read More

"There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action."Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"She's been having hallucinations and thought she's possessed," the medical officer on the other end told… Read More

"Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest."Larry LorenzoniMy birthday visited me last month and since I have tweaked my social media acc… Read More

"Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely."Charles M. SchulzAfter our success with street food in Vang Vieng, we had grown bold. We relaxed our guards an… Read More

"There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story."Frank HerbertThe date is 10th of February, 2014. We had the morning free until 11:00AM before we had to haul ass… Read More

"As I see the world, there's one element that's even more corrosive than missionaries: tourists. It's not that I feel above them in any way, but that the very places they patronize are destr… Read More

"In my travels I found no answers, only wonders."Marty RubinContinuing from the last write-up of my Northern Laos travelogue series, Cheryl and I arrived in the royal city of Luang Prabang o… Read More

"The Dwarves tell no tale; but even as mithril was the foundation of their wealth, so also it was their destruction: they delved too greedily and too deep, and disturbed that from which they… Read More

"When I ask how old your toddler is, I don't need to hear '27 months.' 'He's two' will do just fine. He's not a cheese. And I didn't really care in the first place."George CarlinBecause tril… Read More

"We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation."Lily TomlinI was honeymooning in Laos with the Crazy Cat Lady™ earlier this year in Februar… Read More

"The Christian theory is little else than the idolatry of the ancient Mythologists, accommodated to the purposes of power and revenue; and it yet remains to reason and philosophy to abolish… Read More

"A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it."Bob HopeI think most households would have some sort of receptacle for the loose change that we unwitting… Read More

"We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were gi… Read More

"Gonna goose that gooseGonna quack that swanGonna rubber my duckie all night longGonna whack that MallardUntil its feathers plumeGonna Huey Dewey Louie all over the roomScrooge McDuck, gonna… Read More

"Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!"Monty Python's Flying CircusOn Saturday, I cycled 24 kilometres to a waterfall near a village outside of the city of Kuching and on my return journey… Read More

"Please Charles, we need you to... hope again."Charles Xavier to his past self inX-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)This review will spoil everything in the movie.JamesMcAvoy superimposed over… Read More

"O you who have believed, eat from the good things which We have provided for you and be grateful to Allah if it is [indeed] Him that you worship. He has only forbidden to you dead animals… Read More

"Professor Johnston often said that if you didn't know history, you didn't know anything. You were a leaf that didn't know it was part of a tree."Timeline (1999) by Michael CrichtonPicture o… Read More

"But whether there be a God and whatever be His nature; whether we have an immortal soul or not, or whatever may be our state after death, I can have no fear of having to suffer for the stud… Read More

"Without ice cream, there would be darkness and chaos."Don KardongThis is a video of Baby Darwin eating ice-cream at day 203 of life - almost 7 months old.He had ice-cream before this and kn… Read More

"And you can't fight the tears that ain't comingOr the moment of truth in your liesWhen everything feels like the moviesYeah, you bleed just to know you're aliveAnd I don't want the world to… Read More

"Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion."Mountains of the Mind: a History of a Fascination (2008)by Robert McfarlaneOn the 23rd of… Read More

"A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold."Ogden NashLast Saturday, I was planning to bundle our entire family (sans cats… Read More

"Well you only need the light when it's burning lowOnly miss the sun when it starts to snowOnly know you love her when you let her go"Let Her Go (2012) by PassengerToday, we learned that the… Read More