The word indulgent has become a popular catchphrase for dishes we should not eat for health's sake. I never use it to describe food, only poor parenting.

When insecurity starts to rub off on you, you begin to lose a sense of belonging.

Here, then, is the last moment of true perception, a man fishing in a red jacket and a cloudy sky reflected on opaque water.

Rhyme and reason answer all problems

Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. Had he run unopposed he would have lost.

Home is not where you live but where they understand you.

Fun can happen on the interior. Nobody knows about it, but there are fireworks going on inside your spirit when you hear a great orchestra playing great music.

I love to think about chance - about how one little overheard word, one pebble in a shoe, can change the universe.

Who will observe the observers?

Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering.

I've listened to a lot of outside stuff and just haven't really heard anything that moves me. I don't know if I'm getting old and crotchety or what.