Experts must read the patterns and judge their usefulness as evidence. Under any of numerous pressures, an expert may wish to misread a pattern or even to alter it. Americans had a touching trust in "experts".

Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion, and empathy.

Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing.

Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one, is a life diminished.

What most people find important, you do not. This is Wisdom. To what you believe is important, you are ready to give your mind, heart, and soul. This is Grace.

I am basically a pretty good autodidact. I can teach myself things.

If you have to pay the bills, and you write something you're not proud of, use a pen-name for that.