We were both chumps. But you know what? It's not so bad when you're chumps together.

Maybe the Snowy Heron is going to come off pretty badly when the planes come together. Maybe. But he's still proud and beautiful. His head is high, and he's got this sharp beak that's facing out to the world.He's okay for now.

A comedy isn’t about being funny...a comedy is about characters who dare to know that they may choose a happy ending after all.

Sometimes--and I know it doesn't last for anything more than a second--sometimes there can be perfect understanding between two people who can't stand each other. He smiled, and I smiled, and we put the Timex watches on, and we watched the seconds flit by.

Vengeance is sweet. Vengeance taken when the vengee isn't sure who the venger is, is sweeter still.

The light made the snowballs look yellow. Or at least I hoped that was the cause.

You know, there are good reasons to learn how to read. Poetry isn't one of them. I mean, so what if two roads go two ways in a wood? So what? Who cares if it made all that big a difference? What difference? And why should I have to guess what the difference is? Isn't that what he's supposed to say? Why can't poets just say what they want to say and then shut up?