Hope is not a resting place but a starting point - a cactus, not a cushion.

There are two things that you need to save for. First, you need an emergency cushion of no fewer than six months of living expenses. This needs to be cash in a liquid account where you can get at it in - yes - an emergency if you need it. In other words, money markets, not CDs. You also need to save for your future: that means retirement.

Sin and forgiveness and falling and getting back up and losing the pearl of great price in the couch cushions but then finding it again, and again, and again? Those are the stumbling steps to becoming Real, the only script that's really worth following in this world or the one that's coming.

I read the Koran and it appealed to me. At the time I was agnostic and it really breathed spiritually back into me. For me it's really a cushion; it's cool, I'm cool with it.

Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.

What goes down always comes up and what comes up always goes down. Such is Life. Celebrate its suchness. And keep flowing with Life. Sometimes reaping rich dividends and sometimes feeling good you have either cushioned well for a loss or learning that you could have cushioned better. Enjoy the ride!

Don't be alarmed if this isn't going anywhere. Don't expect theories, reliable facts or conclusions. Don't take any of this too seriously. That's what universities are for, and theses, and academic studies. Personally, I like caf?s, bars and living rooms. Not to mention comfortable cushions. So nice and cosy.

Loving yourself is scary. That's why people don't do it. To love yourself is to make eye contact with yourself- stare a measureless distance into your soul and embrace the journey to and through pillars of emotions and resting on the cushions of the heart. Imagine that. Then make it a reality.

Fat men take a cushion with them wherever they go.

Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner by the fireside with your slippers on your feet?

Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.