I'm right-handed, whereas the fellow in my mirror is left-handed. I start shaving from the left; he starts from the right. Differences only in perception, but religious wars have been fought over such.

There would be a lot more optimists if it weren't for the rise-and-shine requierement.

Learn to listen. It's amazing the ideas that pop into your head while people are saying them into your ear.

What to do with your one life? The same thing you would do if you had two lives, and this were the second.

I nod to a passing stranger, and the stranger nods back, and two human beings go off, feeling a little less anonymous.

Whoever dreamed up Scrabble had an exaggerated idea of how many 7-letter words have five i's.

Ah, yes, my social life — a series of encounters where we briefly debate who is in the greater rush.