God left so many fingerprints at the scene of Creation that you wonder — does He want to be found, or does He want to be stopped?

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.

You can spend too much time wondering which of identical twins is the more alike.

What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family and the gathering.

Ever wonder what crime you committed that you are confined to a small enclosure above your sinuses, under permanent skull arrest?

If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that "Members not Present" and "Subjects Discussed" were one and the same.

It finally happened. I got the GPS lady so confused, she said, "In one-quarter mile, make a legal stop and ask directions.

For the most part, we carnivores do not eat other carnivores. We prefer to eat our vegetarian friends.

On a windswept hill by a billowing sea, my destiny sits and waits for me.

It is not that love is blind. It is that love sees with a painter's eye, finding the essence that renders all else background.

There were tough thoughts battling one another inside his head for the right to become reality.

I see woefully obscure poetry as simply a kind of verbal rudeness.

Pluralism isn't just diversity; it's something we create out of this diversity.

My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.

I don't lie; I improve on my life.

I vill destroy de snickers bar!" Gazzy(The Gas Man)

I do not believe writers should read reviews of their own books, and I do not. If one is not careful one is soon writing to please reviewers and not their audience or themselves.

I am luminous with age.

Don't you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn't just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?

Leisure is the mother of philosophy; and commonwealth, the mother of peace and leisure.