After a long day, folk rest at night. After a long summer, folk play games and sit about in the winter. After a long life folk sit about the fire and stay warm, for the chill of death is upon them, and even the thickest bearskin can't keep off the shivering.

I say, when your hair turns gray and your children think they know who you are, do the thing that shakes up who you think you are, even who you had prided yourself on being. When all those around you say they simply don't recognize you any longer, that's the real compliment.

I don't know - is everything the U.S. does a shocking embarrassment?

With preference came point of view; with point of view, personality; with personality, uniqueness; with uniqueness, grief.

Oh, that sound? I'm in the hot tub, reading a novel.

Critical thinking is to a liberal education as faith is to religion. ... the converse was true also - faith is to a liberal education as critical thinking is to religion, irrelevant and even damaging.

We sort of read two or three big newspapers but we don't get the flavor of the local events, the local news as much.