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.

The trouble with 'a place for everything and everything in its place' is that there's always more everything than places.

On a windswept hill by a billowing sea, my destiny sits and waits for me.

Eventually the person who tries to fix the problem will be blamed for causing it.

Yes, I believe in guardian angels, because otherwise I must believe that life is a string of death-defying miracles - and I don't believe in miracles.

I am not certain of the hereafter. Frankly, I'm not all that certain of the here.

It can be said of optimism that while sometimes mistaken, it is never sadly mistaken.