I didn’t intend it to come out sarcastically, but I guess that’s just where my tone of voice automatically goes these days.

It’s a sad state of affairs when I’m the one bringing sanity to the equation

There’s an empty seat next to me in the ‘intensely aggravating’ section…and it’s got your name on it

The cleanest civilization I’ve ever seen…and the number one thing you pack for a wedding is a jar of dirt?

Suddenly, I saw ocean again—then another horizon line—but this time the deep blue sky was on the wrong side of the line…the Holy crap, we’re upside down side.

I tried not to think of all the horror movies featuring this exact scenario, soon to be followed by an abundance of gratuitous blood and gore.

We broke into laughter—the kind that’s your only recourse when you feel like curling up in a fetal position and whimpering like a little girl.

You and your ‘potential’, ” I lazily rolled my eyes. “According to you, everyone has it…and no one is living up to it.

Silence upon silence, with a heaping pile of extra silence.

I’m not familiar with this word you were repeating before…‘cojones’, was it?”I blushed as Dominick patted me on the back. “Way to introduce him to the vernacular, Palta.

Imagination's better half can sometimes tilt it's heavy head and wink, as if to say, "That's the way!"And I'd be off at a trot wherever it led.

When we cannot get what we love we must love what is within our reach.

Acorns were good till bread was found.

Some time all kinds of letters will be published to the ineffable delight of endless readers.

Health food would seem healthier if the people that sold it looked less unhealthy.

One cat just leads to another." [Letter from Finca Vigia, Cuba, to his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (1943).]

Build traditions of family vacations and trips and outings. These memories will never be forgotten by your children.

Suffering is universal.

Women who have power are always feared.

Many have paid lip service to philosophy, but these men served it with their whole heart. He tastes nothing who has not tasted for himself.