The trouble with having a stubbornness contest with your kids is that they have your stubbornness gene.

There's a lot of not caring that goes under the name of minding your own business.

If God had intended me to make excuses for who I am, He would have given me better excuses.

To trade a childhood wonder for a plausible explanation - is there a worst trade one makes in life?

To find someone who will love you through success and failure is to discover how little life has to do with either.

Hamlet at 70: "To sleep, perchance to dream. To awaken, perchance to go to the bathroom."

Sometimes I wonder — if I were drop-dead handsome, and every woman I met actually dropped dead, would I ever get tired of it?