David Walsh

“I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.”
― Tom Waits

“He had a hat”.”
― Fanny Chmelar

“One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.”
― Will Durant

“ I think of the chimp, the one with the talking hands.
In the course of the experiment, that chimp had a baby. Imagine how her trainers must have thrilled when the mother, without prompting, began to sign her newborn.
Baby, drink milk.
Baby, play ball.
And when the baby died, the mother stood over the body, her wrinkled hands moving with animal grace, forming again and again the words: Baby, come hug, Baby come hug, fluent now in the language of grief.”
― Amy Hempel, The Collected Stories