When you have dogs, you witness their uncomplaining acceptance of suffering, their bright desire to make the most of life in spite of the limitations of age and disease, their calm awareness of the approaching end when their final hours come. They accept death with a grace that I hope I will one day be brave enough to muster.

The world howls for social justice, but when it comes to social responsibility, you sometimes cant even hear crickets chirping.

I've had good publishers and bad publishers, and you've got to learn when the advice is sensible and when it's not.

Change isn't easy... changing the way you live means changing what you believe about life. That's hard... When we make our own misery, we sometimes cling to it even when we want so bad to change because the misery is something we know. The misery is comfortable.

I never have lunch because it makes me foggy-headed.

One door away from heaven And the key is ours to lose. One door away from heaven But oh, the entry dues.

We yearn for tomorrow and the progress that it represents. But yesterday was once tomorrow, and where was progress in it? Or we yearn for yesterday, for what was or what might have been. But as we are yearning, the present is becoming the past, so the past is nothing but our yearning for second chances.