Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

In the end, all solutions are temporary.

March is the month God created to show people who don't drink what a hangover is like.

Being an English major prepares you for impersonating authority.

Ha! Easy for nuns to talk about giving up things. That's what they do for a living.

Travel is the art form available to Everyman. You sit in the coffee shop in a strange city and nobody knows who you are, or cares, and so you shed your checkered past and your motley credentials and you face the day unarmed ... And onward we go and some day in the distant future, we will stop and turn around in astonishment to see all the places we've been and the heroes we were.

I want to resume the life of a shy person.