One day you are an apprentice, and everybody's pet; the next, you are coldly expected to deliver. There is never sufficient warning that the second day is coming.

I'm always there to tell people that their life is not that bad. I wish it was easy to follow that advice.

To talk easily with people, you must firmly believe that either you or they are interesting. And even then it's not easy.

God is less careful than General Motors, for He floods the world with factory rejects.

We are never more self-righteous than when giving up what we should have shunned all along.

Luck: when your burst of energy doesn't run afoul of someone else's.

What a shame that allowances have to stop with the teens: both those that are paid to us and those that are made for us.