Looking back, you realize that everything would have explained itself if you had only stopped interrupting.

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.

I'm a pretty patient guy when it's something worth waiting for.

When one star sets, a million spring forth.

Nothing brings on jealousy like laughter.

How like a queen comes forth the lonely Moon From the slow opening curtains of the clouds Walking in beauty to her midnight throne!

Capitalism, after all, is no fun when real failure becomes a possibility.

When an editor first explained to me the difference between direct and indirect writing, I just thought it was a stylistic choice.

You don't think your way to creative work. You work your way to creative thinking.

If life on Planet Earth was really supposed to be a picnic, we would all have been born clutching gingham tablecloths.

That which endures is not one or another association of living forms, but the process of which the cosmos is the product, and of which these are among the transitory expressions.