The Mountain

If a man should ask to meet me

at the summit of a mountain

to discuss the great questions of life,

I would have to turn him down.

Talking Woman

A woman with a coarse voice

can be very sexy,

especially if she only says

the most negative things.

Table

In keeping with the general practice

of looking at things

and then saying something about them,

Paolo looked over at the table and said,

“I don’t like it.”

—William Minor

 

Attention

If I don’t receive the attention

that I think I deserve,

I feel slighted,

aggrieved and ignored.

On the rare occasions

that I do receive it,

I feel like a fraud.

Deprivation

I deprived myself, in the hope

that it would provide me

with a unique perspective:
It did—and that there would

eventually be some reward

for the sacrifice: there wasn’t.

—John Tottenham