If life is just a stage, then we are all running around ad-libbing, with absolutely no clue what the plot is. Maybe that's why we don't know whether it's a comedy or tragedy. —Bill Watterson

If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago? —Bill Gates

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators. —Albert Camus

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. —Abraham Maslow

You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else. —Grace Paley

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary. —Cecil Beaton

The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see -- every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties. —Graham Greene

Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is. —Jose Saramago

A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others. —William Faulkner

Those who are in the Lord never say goodbye for the last time. —Scottish Proverb

Why can't we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together? I guess that wouldn't work. Someone would leave. Someone always leaves. Then we would have to say good-bye. I hate good-byes. I know what I need. I need more hellos. — Charles M. Schulz

There is neither heaven nor earth, only snow, falling incessantly. —Unknown

(For more about snow, see my other blog, "It's All About....")

For a marriage relationship to flourish, there must be intimacy. It takes an enormous amount of courage to say to your spouse, "This is me. I'm not proud of it -- in fact, I'm a little embarrassed by it -- but this is who I am." —Bill Hybels

Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed. —G.K. Chesterton

Only mediocre people are always at their best. —Anonymous

To see far is one thing: going there is another. —Constantin Brancusi

One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again. —Judith Viorst

Unanswered questions are not nearly as dangerous as unquestioned answers. —Anonymous

Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. —Howard Thurman

There is no security quite as comfortable and undemanding as the kind you feel among old friends. —Peter Bodo