Hamlet at 70: "To sleep, perchance to dream. To awaken, perchance to go to the bathroom."

I guess, when you get down to it, a loving touch compensates for an unskilled hand about everywhere except in an airplane cockpit.

The perfect family board game is one that can be played each time with fewer pieces.

I count myself lucky, having long ago won a lottery paid to me in seven sunrises a week for life.

In the time it takes you to understand a 14-year-old, he turns 15.

No matter how reclusive we tend to be, we picture the after-life as a community of souls. It is one thing to seek privacy in this life; it is another to face eternity alone.

Anything we tell our kids about life is a placemarker until they figure it out for themselves.