A naturopath once told me you should never take antibiotics except if you have pneumonia, a kidney infection or some other serious illness. That's my philosophy, too.

I tend to worry about the minutiae of life. But living in the mountains of Idaho and having retreated from fame, I am more in tune with life.

My grief lies all within

A smile is a friend maker

even in death, his last breath was poetryexisting in the wind and on the breeze of"it used to be likes" forever remembering, yet never relivinghis lifewill never be what it used to be like.

You won't let anything bad happen to me, will you, Garrett?"A lump the size of Massachusetts lodges in my throat. I swallow hard and try to speak past it."Never.

Children are angels.

People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love.

Any business you go into, you have to think about how much money you are willing to put into it, and how much you are not.

Long-term unemployment can make any worker progressively less employable, even after the economy strengthens.

I know that attaching memories to books may be going out of the world, but while it lasts, it's a strong record of your life.

And I don't get down on nobody else for doing whatever else they do. To each his own.