No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.

The present never ages. Each moment is like a snowflake, unique, unspoiled, unrepeatable, and can be appreciated in its surprisingness.

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living.

To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.

Although there are many trial marriages... there is no such thing as a trial child.

With each passage of human growth we must shed a protective structure . We are left exposed and vulnerable - but also yeasty and embryonic again, capable of stretching in ways we hadn't known before.

Husbands come and go; children come and eventually they go. Friends grow up and move away. But the one thing that's never lost is your sister.

The source of continuing aliveness was to find your passion and pursue it, with whole heart and single mind.

If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.

Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.

Love is the only flame that set the soul on fire.

Always speak first to the toughest person in the room.

...clatter of a typwriter suggests that you're actually building something.

I'm an Action Transvestite.

A good, very good, not to say admirable schoolmaster, but then he is only a schoolmaster.

In order to lead a fascinating life, one brimming with art, music, intrigue, and romance, you must surround yourself with precisely those things.

What really drives me mad about art is that, in America, the only thing you can do is to take it apart.

The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping.

Pere Noel. Babbo Natale. Pelznickel. Topo Gigio

Unmissed but by his dogs and by his groom.