There are days in retirement that are the waking equivalent of a dreamless sleep, if you know what I mean.

I don't know that there are haunted houses. I know that there are dark staircases and haunted people.

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.

If you don't watch out, putting on your unhappiness in the morning can become as instinctive as putting on your clothes.

I sit in my garden, gazing upon a beauty that cannot gaze upon itself. And I find sufficient purpose for my day.

Most people would rather defend to the death your right to say it than listen to it.

Happiness is having a dream you cannot let go of and a partner who would never ask you to.