Every world has dogs or their equivalent, creatures that thrive on companionship, creatures that are of a high order of intelligence although not the highest and that therefore is simple enough in their wants and needs to remain innocent. The combination of their innocence and their intelligence allows them to serve as a bridge bewtween what is transient and what is eternal, between the finate and the infinate.

When new hopes fail, old hopes return in the endless cycle of desperation.

Being paid well for something you love to do - it's a grace.

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.

What looks tragic might be comic on second consideration, and what is comic might bring tears in time.

I can do what I need to do. I can get where I want to go, no matter how hard it is.

The mockery of friends is affectionate, and inoculates against foolishness.