It is music that speaks to the deepest reaches of your soul, and you are lifted higher, ever higher, by the adagio, in my opinion more so even than in any of the masses that Beethoven composed.

Like children, dogs want discipline and are most secure when they have rules to live by. The happiest dogs are those with gentle masters who quietly but firmly demand respect.

If wishes were filet mignon, we'd always eat well at dinner

Night has patterns that can be read less by the living than by the dead.

A man begins dying at the moment of his birth. Most People live in denial of Death's patient courtship until, late in life and deep in sickness, they become aware of him sitting bedside.

A plot without action is like pasta without garlic, like Dolly Parton without cleavage, and like a writer without his similes.

Even if God exists, does He know that you do?