Even those who emerge from the sea to casually braid their shiny wet vines into a thick coil with a hibiscus on the end also have bad-hair days

“Remember,” they say, “that the darkest hour of all. is the hour before day.”

To ‘know on which side your bread is buttered’ is to be aware of which side of a conflict it is in your interests to be on.

The English dictum that a man’s home is his refuge.

The appeal of nature in the raw.