You can accept a falling out that changes your plans, but it's hard to accept a betrayal that changes your memories.

Charisma is not just saying hello. It's dropping what you're doing to say hello.

I believe in animal rights, and high among them is the right to the gentle stroke of a human hand.

Here is the basic question: Are we marionettes, or are we creatures of free will who just happen to have a lot of jerky reflexes?

Now and then it's good to list all the things you regularly do for which there was once a good reason.

All my life I've wanted, just once, to say something clever without losing my train of thought

Why be saddled with this thing called life expectancy? Of what relevance to an individual is such a statistic? Am I to concern myself with an allotment of days I never had and was never promised? Must I check off each day of my life as if I am subtracting from this imaginary hoard? No, on the contrary, I will add each day of my life to my treasure of days lived. And with each day, my treasure will grow, not diminish.