The wife picked out ceramic tile for floor covering, not realizing that cost was determined by square foot, not square yard like carpet. Thinking the price was plenty reasonable, she had an extra room of tile ordered for installation. When the bill arrived, it was staggering. She and her husband began a fight that continued all through the construction job. They ended up divorced, but not until she had broken every window.

I have closely noted that people who watch a great deal of TV never again seem able to adjust to the actual pace of life. The speed of the passing images becomes the speed the aspire to and they seem to develop an impatience and boredom with anything else.

I had let my digust with teaching ruin my love of literature.

After a lifetime of world travel I've been fascinated that those in the third world don't have the same perception of reality that we do.

I'm hoping to be astonished tomorrow by I don't know what.

So when I made some money, I didn't have any idea how one handled such a situation because no one in our family ever had any money.

Zen is the vehicle of reality.