A wife is like a children's movie; always under-appreciated and without either, life would be incomplete.

I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.

'He's got a can up there,' Richard said.

We, or at least I, can have no conception of human life and human thought in a hundred years or fifty years. Perhaps my greatest wisdom is the knowledge that I do not know. The sad ones are those who waste their energy in trying to hold it back, for thy can only feel bitterness in loss and no joy in gain.

I need a dog pretty badly. I dreamed of dogs last night. They sat in a circle and looked at me and I wanted all of them.

Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all.

I do want to make it very convincing. And the best way to do that is to put most of it in dialogue.