Marriage is survived just on the basis of ordinary etiquette, day in and day out. Also cooking together helps a lot.

Death steals everything except our stories.

Dad said I would always be "high minded and low waged" from reading too much Ralph Waldo Emerson. Maybe he was right.

I seek the substantial in life.

It is easy to forget that in the main we die only seven times more slowly than our dogs.

The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth

Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North