It is hard to resist a flatterer who gets it right.

Nothing reduces the odds against you like ignoring them.

The easiest way to meet people is to just look like someone who is willing to listen.

Lovers needn't always agree, anymore than poetry need always rhyme.

A blogger is constantly looking over his shoulder, for fear that he is not being followed.

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.

We labor to make a house a home, then every time we're expecting visitors, we rush to turn it back into a house.