While cats can be infuriating, little old women in fur coats, they make me laugh. Of course, dogs, horses and my highly social chickens are dear to me, too.

One thing Mom taught me, "You're going to be dead a long time, so do it now!"

I have changed my definition of tragedy. I now think tragedy is not foul deeds done to a person (usually noble in some manner) but rather that tragedy is irresolvable conflict.

Alcohol is an allergy of the body and an obsession of the mind.

A narcissism shared by two.

I'm not a person who worries too much about what I've done.

Language is decanted and shared. If only one person is left alive speaking a language - the case with some American Indian languages - the language is dead. Language takes two and their multiples.