Once when he was still young, I saw a bit of his scalp showing through his hair and I was afraid. But it was just a cowlick. Now sometimes it shows through for real, but I feel only tenderness.

A few nights later, I secretly hope that I might be a genius. Why else can no amount of sleeping pills fell my brain? But in the morning my daughter asks me what a cloud is and I cannot say.

A thought experiment courtesy of the Stoics. If you are tired of everything you possess, imagine that you have lost all these things.

The wife watched her neighbor get fat over the next year. The Germans have a word for that. Kummerspeck. Literally, grief bacon.

Is she a good baby? People would ask me. Well, no, I'd say.That swirl of hair on the back of her head. We must have taken a thousand pictures of it.

Here is what happens in middle age: Some friends and acquaintances who were merely eccentric for years become unmistakably mad.

Whenever the wife wants to do drugs, she thinks about Sartre. One bad trip and then a giant lobster followed him around for the rest of his days.

What Ann Druyan said: Compressed into a minute-long segment, the brain waves of a woman newly in love sound like a string of firecrackers exploding.

Be true to your real self you are all you’ve got

Punctuality is the thief of time.

By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept Remembering thee.

An empty day, though clear and bright, Is just as dark as any night.

There's a sadness to all kinds of music if you want to hear it. There's also happiness to it if you want to hear it.

I think having a dog makes you more compassionate.

It's not a contest, and I ain't on no conquest for no mate.

There is no shortcut to perfection. All it takes is hard work, and more hard work.

We believe people with Passion CAN change the World for the Better." -Steve Jobs

Conservatism and old fogeyism are totally different things; the motto of one is "Prove all things and hold fast that which is good" and of the other "Prove nothing but hold fast that which is old."