Be it human or animal, touch is a life-giving thing. Has anyone ever had a stroke or a heart attack while cozied up with a pet? I doubt it.

If an artist has talent, he needs no other critic.

Through sources, we have obtained the following alien assessment of the human species: The male wants to be valued for what he pretends to be. The female wants to be overvalued for what she truly is.

Sometimes two people need to step apart and make a space between that each might see the other anew, in a glance across a room or silhouetted against the moon.

We are each a dozen people who were all the same child.

What we find in a soulmate is not something wild to tame but something wild to run with.

In the end, who among us does not choose to be a little less right to be a little less lonely.