Secret of life is to go through something harrowing that doesnt kill you...and to love one woman for the rest of your life.

Sport is a seductive metaphor (life as a game in which we gain victory through hard work, discipline, and visualizing success). but the older metaphor of farming (life as hard labor that is subject to weather and quirks of blind fate and may return no reward whatsoever and don't be surprised) is still in our blood.

Children can find other children to be pals. Children need fathers to be fathers.

Second violins can play a concerto perfectly if they're in their own home and nobody's there.

Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.

A compassionate conservative is someone who electrocutes juveniles but lets them have a last 'make a wish'.

In romance, as in life, you only learn when you're losing.