The first goal of writing is to have one's words read successfully.

Despite the goings-on in Congress, I don't believe the USA is bordering on madness. I believe Mexico and Canada are.

Optimist: someone who isn't sure whether life is a tragedy or a comedy but is tickled silly just to be in the play.

When I am gone, my love, do not look for me in the places we used to go to together. Look for me in the places we always planned to go to together.

I wish to die knowing that I took a fleeting instant of eternity and fashioned from it a lifetime.

We lack resolve and blame fate, mistaking the drift for the tides.

To accept reality is only to encourage it.