Billy Joel:

Some folks like to get away…

Law Minister K. Shanmugam:

This is where most people make a mistake…I have tried to explain that we are different. We are a city. We are not a country.

Ahmed Muhamed Dore, 112 years old on marrying a 17 year old:

I didn’t force her, but used my experience to convince her of my love; and then we agreed to marry.

Six Basic Principles of Maturity:

1. Accept yourself

2. Accept others

3. Keep your sense of humor

4. Accept simple pleasures

5. Enjoy the present

6. Welcome work

David Brooks:

The greatest lesson our ancestors have to teach us is to remain both vigilant and unafraid. We must endeavor to emulate the ancient Romans; calm, efficient, treating zombies as just one more item on a rather mundane checklist. Panic is the undead’s greatest ally, doing far more damage, in some cases, than the creatures themselves. The goal is to be prepared, not scared, to use our heads, and cut off theirs.

30 – Of all the good things here in the solitude, nothing could match a wall clock that went all through the dark winter, striking the hours prettily.

103 – … he was appalled at the expenses that being in love could lead to.

230 – Women cannot tell one man from another, not always, not often.

318 – You have no need of a sword in your hand, you walk through life barehanded and bareheaded in the midst of a great kindliness.

319 – Not everybody is, but you are: vital to the earth. You sustain life. You go on from generation to generation, fulfilling yourselves through sheer breeding; when you die, the new brood takes over. This is what is meant by eternal life.

Anita Roddick on The Body Shop:

But that real sense of change, that anarchy– I tell Gordon we need a department of surprises. Whatever we do we have to preserve that sense of being different… We just have to make sure we don’t wind up like an ordinary company.

wala wala played trance last night in the upper room and it was, as mr. tan put it:

just wrong.

i asked them to change the music.

they played Tracy Chapman’s Fast Car.

it’s astonishing how a song about abject poverty can cheer me up so quickly.

the best part about masturbation is that it does not involve public transport.

back in the USSR, Russians know that when reports about the dangers of butter appear in the press, it was a sure sign that people would soon face a butter shortage.

here in Asia, when you read about politicians talking about “Asian values” in the press, it’s a sure sign that people would soon be confused with Confucianism, neutralised with sweet Namastes and sodomised as we Sawatdee-ka and bend.

don’t bend.