I am a great fan of the universe, which I take literally: as one. All of it interests me, and it interests me in detail.

Libraries change lives. They are the soul of a people.

Because IQ tests favor memory skills and logic, overlooking artistic creativity, insight, resiliency, emotional reserves, sensory gifts, and life experience, they can't really predict success, let alone satisfaction.

The heart is a museum, filled with the exhibits of a lifetime's loves.

Which is crueler, an old man's lost memories of a life lived, or a young man's lost memories of the life he meant to live?

Wonder is a bulky emotion. When you let it fill your heart and mind, there isn't room for anxiety, distress or anything else.

Smell brings to mind... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years.