People ask how I think up my thoughts. Mostly I think them up while reading Paul Simon's lyrics.

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

If you understand compound interest, you basically understand the universe.

We are each of us born into the arms of mortality, the Lord recognizing our need to be held.

I find in old age that it's possible to revisit the past, the one requirement being that you come as you are.

Do not call any work menial until you have watched a proud person do it.

My quest for cosmic understanding is a book I have picked up and put down many times, always forgetting to insert a bookmark.