If I choose abstraction over reality, it is because I consider it the lesser chaos.

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.

Be it human or animal, touch is a life-giving thing. Has anyone ever had a stroke or a heart attack while cozied up with a pet? I doubt it.

I believe in animal rights, and high among them is the right to the gentle stroke of a human hand.

Politicians don't lie, they misspeak. And they don't steal, they mispocket.

Perhaps we are given a mom that we might take into death the memory of a lullaby.

Wealth and wisdom are seldom combined, for the person who achieves one no longer desires the other.