Where there's cake, there's hope. And there's always cake.

The snow did not even whisper its way to earth, but seemed to salt the night with silence.

It was one of those rare times when remembering the dead was more inmportant than tending to the needs of the living.

In the real world as in dreams nothing is quite what it seems. -The Book of Counted Sorrows

There's lots of law these days, but not much justice.

It is human nature to want to believe in the wizardry of the magician--but also to turn against him and to scorn him the moment that he commits the slightest error that reveals his trickery. Those in the audience are embarrassed to have been so easily astonished, and they blame the performer for their gullibility.

A long walk and grooming with a well-mannered dog is a Zen experience that leaves you refreshed and in a creative frame of mind.