It is my experience that in some areas [my poodle] Charley is more intelligent that I am, but in others he is abysmally ignorant. He can't read, can't drive a car, and has no grasp of mathematics. But in his own field of endeavor, which he is now practicing, the slow, imperial smelling over and anointing on an area, he has no peer. Of course his horizons are limited, but how wide are mine?

I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.

There's something desirable about anything you're used to as opposed to something you're not.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

Lord, how the day passes! It's like a life - so quickly when we don't watch it and so slowly when we do.

You never oughta drink water when it ain't runnin'.

Men all do about the same thing when they wake up.