To the student I would say, "Life is principally multiple choice, but at the end there's a tough essay question.

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

Though confined to our destiny, we do get to pick the color scheme.

You start making progress in life when you realize that you don't always have to resume where you left off.

Often it's just a short swim from the shipwreck of your life to the island paradise of your dreams, assuming you don't drown in the metaphor.

We envy others, for we see their lives in broad outline, while forced to live ours in every detail.

The Seven Deadly Sins are a litany of victimless crimes, compiled to distract attention from the bloody felonies of the righteous.