This was life, I supposed, running and running and running, and realizing along the way that the phantom was getting closer.

She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.

I feel like I don't have all the ingredients a person is supposed to have.

It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.

It is a rule of nature that taking a day off on the farm sets a person back at least a week.

We all need people to tell us that we were the ones who had been deeply wronged.

Our mission in life is not to discover our fate as we go along, or even to procreate, but rather to fill up the endless gray void that is time.

My god has always been a laissez-faire deity, giving you the initial goods and sending you on to make your way.

It's all a big old chain. There isn't one unconnected link.

Life on earth, filled with uncertainty and change, seemed far more difficult than what lay beyond the grave.

In the end maybe what marriage offered was the determination of one's burial site.

The healing power of even the most microscopic exchange with someone who knows in a flash precisely what you're talking about because she experienced that thing too cannot be overestimated.

Self-change can only come after self-understanding.

We are not always funny, but like a life with Fun

Every so often an author comes along and changes the world. I am not that author!

As we mature and develop awareness to match our potential, our ability to enjoy full health is realized. As we enjoy this fruit, we sow the seeds of greatness in our children.

I love my dad. It's fair to say that I probably would not have thought of politics had I not seen my mom and dad involved in politics.

I don’t know what I’m looking for.” “What not?” “Because … because … I think it might be because if I knew I wouldn’t be able to look for them.

The most important business of one generation is the raising of the next generation. Nothing else you do in life will be as deeply satisfying.

A good trademark, whether a word mark or a symbol, is devoid of fashion or trend, which makes it potentially iconic if it's seen for long enough in the right places.

Fat is mainstream, which is why everyone has become complacent. What used to be considered pudgy before isn't even worthy of a comment today.