Be patient. Your future will come to you and lie down at your feet like a dog who knows and loves you no matter what you are.

And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

What is flirtatiousness but an argument that life must go on and on and on?

In the beginning, God created the earth, and he looked upon it in his cosmic loneliness. And God said, "Let Us make living creatures out of mud, so the mud can see what We have done." And God created every living creature that now moveth, and one was man. Mud as man alone could speak. God leaned close to mud as man sat, looked around, and spoke. "What is the purpose of all this?" he asked politely. "Everything must have a purpose?" asked God. "Certainly," said man. "Then I leave it to you to think of one for all this," said God. And He went away.

Never trust a survivor until you know how they survived.

You can only be funny if you have matters of great importance on your mind.

Of course, socialism is just evil now. It's completely discredited supposedly by the collapse of the Soviet Union, but I can't help noticing that my grandchildren are heavily in hock to Communist China now which is evidently a whole lot better at business than we are.