Egocentrics are attracted to the inept. It gives them one more excuse for patting themselves on the back.

We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.

At 50, you need to laugh about your age. If you don't, everybody else will do it for you. Happy birthday, old chum!

In this sometimes turbulent world, the river is a cosmic symbol of durability and destiny; awesome, but steadfast. In this period of deep national concern, I wish everyone could live for a while beside a great river.

We live in a very tense society. We are pulled apart... and we all need to learn how to pull ourselves together.... I think that at least part of the answer lies in solitude.

I cry out for order and find it only in art.

When books are opened, we discover that we have wings