Yes, letter writing is antiquated - though there remain a few renegades who still so treasure the luxury of contemplating their lives in letters that they would rather write than call.

Coffee: we can get it anywhere, and get as loaded as we like on it, until such teeth-chattering, eye-bulging, nonsense-gibbering time as we may be classified unable to operate heavy machinery.

I'm told some people no longer bother to have friends at all - can't fit them in.

Public depictions of women still tend to remain rigid and narrow - about the size of a coffin, say.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

It may take a village to raise a baby, but hell! it takes an army to produce a book.

Don't complain it's too cold now if you also intend to whine about how hot it is when summer comes. It's just hypocritical.

Your organization can start tweeting, but that wont change its DNA.

If your news must be bad, tell it soberly and promptly.

If you assume you haven't learned anything yet, there's no reason your playing can't stay dynamic all your life.

We having nothing to fear but fear itself. That, and maybe getting mugged by someone wearing a "No Fear" t-shirt.

Emotion without reason lets people walk all over you; reason without emotion is a mask for cruelty.

Bob Dylan truly is a poet whose song is part of the poetry.