Writers don't often say anything that readers don't already know, unless its a news story. A writer's greatest pleasure is revealing to people things they knew but did not know they knew. Or did not realize everyone else knew, too. This produces a warm sense of fellow feeling and is the best a writer can do.

I just wish insignificance had more stature.

Dogs are nicer than people.

Those to whom his word was revealed were always alone in some remote place, like Moses. There wasn't anyone else around when Mohammed got the word either. Mormon Joseph Smith and Christian Scientist, Mary Baker Eddy, had exclusive audiences with God. We have to trust them as reporters--and you know how reporters are. They'll do anything for a story.

Looking and not finding is certainly one of the most frustrating ways to spend time.

I didn't get old on purpose, it just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you.

Once you pass forty, a dime isn't worth bending over to pick up if you drop one.