Looking back on our lives, we invariably find that the person we pretended to be is the person we became.

Nothing reduces the odds against you like ignoring them.

Nothing in life means anything unless someone cares, and the whole trick is to keep being that someone.

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

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

I suppose I will die never knowing what pumpkin pie tastes like when you have room for it.

The hardest thing about reality is returning to it after an hour inside your child's mind.