Fretting over how life ends, or anything else for that matter, is a complete waste of time.

Life is a barter of choice and consequences.

Death is never swift... No matter how those left behind would like to comfort themselves with the thought. -Before Ever After

I have every reason to be sad, but I don't have any reason to mourn. People grieve when things end. Nothing has ended tonight. One of us has simply gone ahead as we always knew it would have to be.

If we accept time for what it is, how it flows and how we flow with it, I doubt very much that would continue wasting loads of it by constantly checking our watches.

The gnomons's shadow falls where it falls - and so do we. Where we are now is where a lifetime's worth of steps have taken us.

I'm sorry, but you just can't fit fabulous into a backpack.

You can't return to a place that no longer exists, luv.

My advice: Take a second out of the day today and be thankful for your family.

Baseball is my escape. The sights, the sounds, the way the park smells. There is truly no place I would rather be than at a game.

Give me a man with an average ability but a burning desire to succeed and I will give you a winner in exchange every time.

My conscience is killing me, isn't it? And when you're immortal that can be a really long and ignominious death

Some homes need a hickory switch a good deal more than they do a piano.

The nature of morality must be considered, and preferably before one is exposed to situations where a moral decision is required.

There's nothing quite so irritating to an author as a family member's easy confidence that, of course, the book will come.

Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.

Two of the most frustrated trades are dentists and photographers - dentists because they want to be doctors, and photographers because they want to be painters.

To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.