Archives - November 2019

Fear not November's challenge bold—
We've books and friends,
And hearths that never can grow cold:
These make amends!

I spend half my time just living my life, and the other half analyzing it.

The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.

There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be offered the chance to be restored.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

Assumptions are the termites of relationships.

A perfect hero is about as boring as a perfect marriage.

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.

Honoring the sacrifices many have made for our country in the name of freedom and democracy is the very foundation of Veterans Day.

A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.

Perfection, to me, means you spend much too much time trying to be perfect.

I look to a time when brotherhood needs no publicity; to a time when a brotherhood award would be as ridiculous as an award for getting up each morning.

Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.

The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

I think the novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers. The novel receives streams of science, philosophy, poetry and contains all of these; it's not simply telling a story.

Hate and fear can poison the body as surely as any toxic chemicals.

The cure for anything is salt water --- sweat, tears, or the sea.

To select well among old things is almost equal to inventing new ones.

Leisure tends to corrupt, and absolute leisure corrupts absolutely.

Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair...

Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do.

So shines the setting sun on adverse skies, and paints a rainbow on the storm.

You are only as beautiful as your last action.

Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.

An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.

We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.

We need to preserve our neighborhoods, our small business, our local economy.