After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can't bring back anything to life.

I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.

Don't be upset that it takes a long, long time to find wisdom because nobody knows where wisdom can be found. It tends to break out at unexpected times like a rare virus and mostly people with compassion and understanding are susceptible to it.

When does she do all this thinking? We're together all the time but she thinks deeply about things and with feeling and she can remember the facts. We've been married 48 years.

And I think belief is one of those things that comes to people in their own way. And just because I believe in something doesn't mean I think that you should.

I was always interested in figuring things out. I'd do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together.

War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.