Plans are one thing and fate another. When they coincide, success results. Yet success mustn't be considered the absolute. It is questionable, for that matter, whether success is an adequate resposne to life. Success can eliminate as many options as failure.

Success can eliminate as many options as failure.

Don't trust anybody who'd rather be grammatically correct than have a good time.

The scientist keeps the romantic honest, and the romantic keeps the scientist human.

My life is not merely a public phenomenon, it is a solitary adventure as well.

I would only read the novels that people classify as 'beach books' if I were being held prisoner and the only alternative was the 'Book of Mormon.'

Often, moreover, it is...that aspect of our being that society finds eccentric, ridiculous, or disagreeable, that holds our sweet waters, our secret well of happiness, the key to our equanimity in malevolent climes.