Who does not wish to be beautiful, and clever, and rich, and to have back, in old age, the time spent trying to be any of them.

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.

You can spend too much time wondering which of identical twins is the more alike.

What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family and the gathering.

Ever wonder what crime you committed that you are confined to a small enclosure above your sinuses, under permanent skull arrest?

If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that "Members not Present" and "Subjects Discussed" were one and the same.

It finally happened. I got the GPS lady so confused, she said, "In one-quarter mile, make a legal stop and ask directions.

For the most part, we carnivores do not eat other carnivores. We prefer to eat our vegetarian friends.

On a windswept hill by a billowing sea, my destiny sits and waits for me.

It is not that love is blind. It is that love sees with a painter's eye, finding the essence that renders all else background.

Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity.

Civilians who volunteer generally wish to escape, not to share, privatizations worse than their own.

We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online.

Me, I'm just a hack. I'm just a schlep-per. I just do what I can do.

I didn't know if it would be a success-ful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as a lifetime musician and songwriter.

Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!

There's a tradition in American fiction that is deadly serious and earnest - like the Steinbeckian social novel.

Maybe you're afraid of sinking. Don't think about it. If you don't think about it, you won't sink. If you do, you will.

I'm always fearful of something happening to people I love. That doesn't go away.

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can.