Here we are - despite the delays, the confusion, and the shadows en route - at last, or for the moment, where we always intended to be.

When it comes to life, we spin our own yarn, and where we end up is really, in fact, where we always intended to be.

And then there's the personal question so many of Lassie's fans want to ask: Is he allowed on the furniture? Of course he is-but, then, he's the one who paid for it.

Mind who you love. For that matter, mind how you are loved.

When most of us talk to our dogs, we tend to forget that they're not people.

I see life as increasingly complex, vivid, colorful, crazy, chaotic. That's the world I write about...the world I live in.

Never talk yourself out of knowing you're in love or into thinking that you are.

Now is almost always the better choice. You never know about later.

I'd rather be pleasantly surprised than fatally disappointed.

Of all the virtues, discretion began to seem the most rewarding: it kept people guessing and sometimes, by default, admiring.

Knowing and understanding the people we love most is a process that continues well beyond their deaths... and is never complete.

There is hardly a better way to avoid discussion than by releasing an argument from the control of the present and by saying that only the future will reveal its merits.

And that's where I'm finally at today - my life is about being with my family. This is what's important.

I'm an optimist about the power of technology to transform lives for the better.

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.

What happened to you?" she asked. "I got hit in the side." "With what?" "A knife.

The [priest] was really my teacher, because I reacted against the things he told me.

Ever since the world ended, I don't go out as much

When you face a fork in the road, step on the exhilarator!

What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?

Politicians can do more funny things naturally than I can think of to do purposely