Auntie Wu took special pride in two of her accomplishments--the sons she bore and the flowers she grew. They were equally useless, but the flowers smelled better.

I could feel the beginning of the story gathering in her throat. Stories are that way, like storms. If you pay attention, you can sense them in the air.

Happiness will be there if you want to be happy.

Perfect is a Preference, Not! a possibility.

Be very proud of what you do, and if you aren't then change it.

The attraction of dating is that you don't take yes for granted - - you're fully engaged, there's seductiveness, tension.

Money is like muck, not good unless spread.

I don't answer the phone. I get the feeling whenever I do that there will be someone on the other end.

Money equals the ability to be mobile in this word, to travel, to live in a place that is suitable, to not be brought down or drained, to not to be a victim.

The reporter wrote with the hope that he would get a by-line in the Times, a testimony to his being alive on that day and all the tomorrows of microfilm

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind... The understanding can intuit nothing, the senses can think nothing. Only through their union can knowledge arise.

It's June in January because I'm in love.