A man from hell is not afraid of hot ashes.

The best things arrive on time.

when a gourd is hollowed out it becomes empty and is of great use to the world because of its emptiness.

There are no happy endings, there are only happy people.

People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in them as food.

my rebelliousness went so deep that, faced with a can of asparagus that instructed me to open at this end, I always, stubbornly, opened it at the other.

We overlook how much in our lives is invisible; love, for instance; thought, God, the future, time, faith, hope and even the electricity that brings us light.

... old clothes, old friends, old books. One needs constants in a traveling life.

If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The best things arrive on time.

Both therapy and friendship possessed the common denominator of discovering a self.

It's when we're given choice that we sit with the gods and design ourselves.

Love, like Fortune, favours the bold.

Why worry, if today be sweet'?

As much as we hate to admit it, we are sinners by birth. We are also sinners by choice. We are also sinners by practice.

Values offer focus amidst the chaos.

I've rung my bells so many times, especially back in the day when chair shots to the head were legal. My goodness, I took so many of those.

Our seniors shouldn't have to check their stock balance before they can get knee surgery.

But the building's identity resided in the ornament.

Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money off them.

Baseball fans are pedants, there is no other kind.

Thoughts and emotions cannot be photographed, despite the protestations of some mystically minded portraitists. Physical fact is ultimately the sole pictorial material.