there are dozens and dozens of ways to be a family ... Family tends to happen.

As paredes tem ouvidos. (Portuguese: The walls have ears.)

If you're too happy about anything, fate usually gives you a good sock in the jaw and knocks you down.

There are forces working in the world as never before in the history of mankind for standardization, for the regimentation of us all, or what I like to call making muffins of us, muffins all like every other muffin in the muffin tin. This is the limited universe, the drying dissipating universe that we can help our children to avoid by providing them with ‘explosive material capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly'.

You cannot see the past that did not happen any more than you can foresee the future.

When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.

To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order.