Do not mistake probability for truth, for it is a notorious liar.

An art critic is someone who appreciates art, except for any particular piece of art.

Often it's just a short swim from the shipwreck of your life to the island paradise of your dreams, assuming you don't drown in the metaphor.

From an aunt, long ago: "Death has come for me many times but finds me always in my lovely garden and leaves me there, I think, as an excuse to return.

As a means to success, determination has this advantage over talent - that it does not have to be recognized by others.

I don't know that there are real ghosts and goblins, But there are always more trick-or-treaters than neighborhood kids.

You spend the first two-thirds of your life asking to be left alone and the last third not having to ask.