I wish I could be a grandmother. It is wanton extravagance to have had a youth with no one to tell of it to when one grows old.

To think of losing is to lose already.

It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.

... possessiveness cannot accept; it cannot even strike a fair bargain; it has to confer.

The fatal flaw of gravity; when you are down, everything falls down on you.

Spring is strictly sentimental, self-regarding; but I burn more careless in the autumn bonfire.

Inflation is the senility of democracies.

cooking is the most succulent of human pleasures.

One cannot overestimate the power of a good rancorous hatred on the part of the stupid. The stupid have so much more industry and energy to expend on hating. They build it up like coral insects.

Truth has beauty, power, and necessity.

Idleness is righteous if it is comfortable. Uncomfortable idleness is sin & sinful waste.

Be like the moon, give everyone your love and smiles.

Oh, and welcome to the Three.

People must take a modicum of public responsibility for each other even if they have no ties to each other.

You can't have good without evil, pleasure without pain, and so on.

Women don't even have equal treatment when it comes to filing a lawsuit for discrimination.

The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.

We try to live every moment like that, dwelling peacefully in the present moment, and respond to events with compassion.

I'll play as long as I'm still willing to work this much, to do all these sacrifices

I love women. I actually prefer girls, as a parent, because they disappoint at a different age. They go through that, "Dad's an idiot," which lasted a little longer than I'd like.