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

Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid.

Time doesn’t, as advertised, heal all wounds. Although the wrenching immediacy of grief eventually passed, the settled sorrow that replaced it might in its own way be even more intense.

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

Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid.

Every talent is unearned, however, and with it comes a solemn obligation to use it as fully and as wisely as possible.

We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking at the world, that one form of behavior, is as valid as another. The idea of true evil has been blown away.