It is usually the case that people who know you better than you know yourself think you're a pretty good person.

Shall I redirect my life's journey because down some side road might be some trifle I'm entitled to?

You spend the first two-thirds of your life asking to be left alone and the last third not having to ask.

There are couples a matchmaker would match every time - and couples who, for no rhyme or reason, rhyme.

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

It helps if you don't see it as traffic but rather as thousands of individuals resolved to press on another day.

You spend 90% of your adult life hoping for a long rest and the last 10% trying to convince the Lord that you're actually not that tired.