If you kept moving, you never had to mourn what you were leaving behind.

Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.

A snake will always be a snake, even if you put a chain around its neck and try to make it walk upright.

Inspiration never arrived when you were searching for it.

One didn't issue instructions to comets. Grown children did what they had to do, and parents could only grit their teeth and watch and pray for them to get through it.

What a surprise to find you could shift the contents of your head like rearranging furniture in a room.

If this was adulthood the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that she could now eat dessert without eating her vegetables.

The requirements of romantic love are difficult to satisfy in the back seat of a Dodge Dart.

Dying was apparently a weaning process; all the attachments to familiar people and objects have to be undone.

What is reading but silent conversation.

Pamper a tomato, overfeed it, overwater it and you will get a Paris Hilton of a tomato.

I consider C++ the most significant technical hazard to the survival of your project and do so without apologies.

Oh.' I shot upright. 'I was in Mongolia.' Note to self: learn to be a less extreme liar.

Country music fans are extremely supportive. Once they're with you, they're with you for life.

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

It's a dangerous business, going out your door.

God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.

Television is a weapon of mass distractrion.