The outdoor Christmas lights, green and red and gold and blue and twinkling, remind me that most people are that way all year round--kind, generous, friendly and with an occasional moment of ecstasy. But Christmas is the only time they dare reveal themselves.

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

The trouble with worrying so much about your security in the future is that you feel so insecure in the present.

The outdoor Christmas lights, green and red and gold and blue and twinkling, remind me that most people are that way all year round--kind, generous, friendly and with an occasional moment of ecstasy. But Christmas is the only time they dare reveal themselves.

What's best about those seaside towns is that they are like time warps, and that's why people go there.

I think much sociopolitical art delivers truisms that are quite flat.