Archives - August 2016

The quickest way for a parent to get a child's attention is to sit down and look comfortable.

Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.

My play was a complete success. The audience was a failure.

Baking cookies is comforting, and cookies are the sweetest little bit of comfort food. They are very bite-sized and personal.

A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows.

Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?

A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves --- a special kind of double.

Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

The cool thing about free will is that even if one has a huge bag of karma there is still a lot of free will for all those souls coming into the world.

Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.

Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby.

My generation is not strong. My grandfather fought in World War II.  I had a panic attack during the series finale of "Breaking Bad."

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

I look to the future because that’s where I’m going to spend the rest of my life.

It hurts to find out that what we wanted doesn’t match what you dreamed it would be.

You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.

Cakes are special. Every birthday, every celebration ends with something sweet, a cake, and people remember. It's all about the memories.

Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity, and consume your own smoke with an extra draft of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaints.

Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear.

It takes too much energy to be against something unless it’s really important.

If you always add and never subtract, you will eventually bury yourself.

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.

I've always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, "Ain't that the truth."

Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art.