Some people say that suicide is a sin, but I have never believed that. I say it's God's way of calling certain folks home early. It's much nicer than an awful accident, where the rest of us are left wondering if the person really wanted to go.

Yet the past has a will of its own, and you must learn to entertain it, because it will visit, invited or not.

gardening is a madness and a rapture.

Chemistry's a tricky thing, and if I'm not feeling it, I'm not gonna pretend.

I always fantasized about having a girl stand on my bar like in that movie Coyote Ugly, but I never thought it would happen.

Better to fail at what you love than succeed at what you hate. People have strange ideas about success ... too much to do with money, not enough to do with joy.

There was a strange kind of comfort in misunderstandings and differences that were old enough to have lost their teeth.