No matter how reclusive we tend to be, we picture the after-life as a community of souls. It is one thing to seek privacy in this life; it is another to face eternity alone.

There is nothing more essential to getting a project off the ground than the underestimate.

Time brings an end to everything. We should not mistake for a tragedy what is no more than the passage of time.

Stored away in some brain cell is the image of a long-departed aunt you haven't thought of in 30 years. Stored away in another cell is the image of a pink pony stitched on your first set of baby pajamas. All it takes to get that aunt mounted on the back of that pony is to eat a hunk of meatloaf immediately before going to bed.

Looking back, you realize that everything would have explained itself if you had only stopped interrupting.

The willingness to share does not make one charitable; it makes one free.

What are memories but dreams of a better past.