We plant a tree that won't be big enough to climb until we're too old to climb trees, we write constitutions to protect the rights of people who won't be born for another hundred years and may not be worth the trouble anyway, and we try to take care of our sick, though we all suffer from a disease for which there is no cure and no hope for one. We will not last and we know we will not - and still we write, carve, build, paint and plant to last. We are, it seems to me, very, very brave.

Co-dependence...taking someone else's temperature to see how you feel.

A good time to laugh is any time you can.

Just because it's a rat race doesn't mean it's okay to be a rat.

Change, like youth, is purely wasted on the young.

The whole town looks as if it had been left out in the rain too long and by mistake.

Like Nietzsche, I believe that without music, life would be a mistake. Nothing but silence says it better.