Marriage is the learning of someone else's habits.

Charm is the enchanted dart, light and subtle as a hummingbird. But it is deceptive in one thing: like a sense of humor, if you think you've got it, you probably haven't.

...appetite turns common food into the fare of kings.

I want the privilege of guiding the arrows of my children and giving them the exhortations that can shoot them into the high place.

It isn't fair that there's pressure exerted on those who choose to live on the edges of the bell-shaped curve of normal.

When lost, I look for gas stations for counsel.

The way of surviving is to find meaning in suffering.

Life and death in a relationship depend on attitudes.

Plans can be like a winged horse, but their execution plods along pulling carts.

I wonder if we climb to heaven over the ruins of many cherished schemes.

(Home) is you in things.

Only wise men look for new wisdom.

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Your eyes, ears and mind are imperfect in front of magic.

To most Americans, a dog is a potential mate. To some Chinese, a dog is potential meat.

But I’m not one to read a book backwards.

A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.

God will punish the wicked. And before He does, we will.

I was born in the year the Titanic sank. The Titanic went down, and I came up. That tells you a little about the fairness of life.

Oh, SCULLION? You’re calling ME a scullion? What the HECK is a scullion?

Virtue debases itself in justifying itself.