Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.

Age doesn't always bring wisdom. Sometimes age comes alone.

A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.

Librarians, Dusty, possess a vast store of politeness. These are people who get asked regularly the dumbest questions on God's green earth. These people tolerate every kind of crank and eccentric and mouth breather there is.

You get old and you realize there are no answers, just stories.

Selective ignorance, a cornerstone of child rearing. You don't put kids under surveillance: it might frighten you. Parents should sit tall in the saddle and look upon their troops with a noble and benevolent and extremely nearsighted gaze.

I don't want them to be told to remember me.