If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been.

My quest for cosmic understanding is a book I have picked up and put down many times, always forgetting to insert a bookmark.

There are memories I choose not to live with, but we hang out at the same bar.

The choice so often these days is to believe something that seems insane or go insane.

You get to an age when there are really just two reasons to get up in the morning — for goodness sake and for heaven's sake.

The painter needs all the talent of the poet, plus hand-eye coordination.

I say to my child, I will explain to you as much of life as I can, but you must remember that there is a part of life for which you are the explanation.