When it comes to life, we spin our own yarn, and where we end up is really, in fact, where we always intended to be.

Now is almost always the better choice. You never know about later.

Of all the virtues, discretion began to seem the most rewarding: it kept people guessing and sometimes, by default, admiring.

And then there's the personal question so many of Lassie's fans want to ask: Is he allowed on the furniture? Of course he is-but, then, he's the one who paid for it.

Never talk yourself out of knowing you're in love or into thinking that you are.

There you are, diligently swimming a straight line, minding the form of your strokes, when you look up and see, always a shock, the currents you can't even feel have pulled you off course.

But things change, of course, and so do the ways in which people see themselves.