If animals could talk, the world would lose its best listeners.

There is in every artist's studio a scrap heap of discarded works in which the artist's discipline prevailed against his imagination.

There have been days when I sought respite from my life, only to find myself calling every hour to check on it.

Life is a series of family photos in which you keep moving to the rear until finally you're a portrait in the background.

Retirement is having nothing to do and someone always keeping you from it.

Yes, I worry about the craziest things, but better me than someone less qualified.

Sometimes, in a moral struggle, we discover the right thing to do - just as, on some cold day long ago, we discovered mittens pinned to our coat sleeve.