It's still possible to be a cockeyed optimist these days - you just have to be a little more cockeyed.

You can think of a painter as a trio - the artist, his talent and his muse, the last two always on the lookout for a new brush man.

Grammar is not a set of arbitrary rules; it is a compact between people who wish to understand each other.

Sometimes in life we blow things out of proportion because proportion is so dull.

Why try to explain miracles to your kids when you can just have them plant a garden.

Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological.

There are times when two people need to step apart from one another, but there is no rule that says they have to turn and fire.