Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people. - Angela Carter

Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.

Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them.

Throwing open the door, she brings forth the veritable queen of all the souffles, that spreads its archangelic wings over the entire kitchen as it leaps upwards from the dish in which the force of gravity alone confines it.