It is easy to mistake being ready for a wedding with being ready for marriage.

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.

If history can do anything it is to remind us that all our judgments are merely relative to time and circumstance.

Oh, one more thing, ' Thor calls out. 'If I know my prophecy, and I do, you beautiful ladies had best start looking for a boat!

I like to call everyone that I find slightly annoying a 'sociopath.'

Mere physical growing up, mere mastery of the bare necessities of subsistence will not suffice to reproduce the life of the group. Deliberate effort and the taking of thoughtful pains are required.

The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.

The only punk that I really care about and am an expert on is the original punk of 1976 to 1979.

I made my parents crazy. As a kid, I redecorated my bedroom every month. I would literally save my allowance and go buy things.

Perhaps our own opposition to even the level of European integration we have now, let alone any more, is well known.

Don't ever knock a bottle out of my hand.

All I could do is lie there and think about how much her voice changed when she asked me if she was pretty, and how much she changed when I answered.