All is illusion, although as long as there's an illusion that the kids need to be fed, all might as well be reality.

Whoever dreamed up Scrabble had an exaggerated idea of how many 7-letter words have five i's.

In sinners and repenters you have the original division of labor.

There is no harder thing to give up than the thing that was supposed to make you happy.

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.

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

There are couples a matchmaker would match every time - and couples who, for no rhyme or reason, rhyme.