Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone else has been.

When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets?

Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18.

Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.

To have courage, one must first be afraid. The deeper the fear, the more difficult the climb toward courage.

Raising a child is very much like building a skyscraper. If the first few stories are slightly out of line. no one will notice. But when the building is 18 or 20 stories high, everyone will see that it tilts.

Gimme: an agreement between two losers who can't putt.