When Grandma Mazur is talking about the reason for the improved play of her 91-year-old bowling teammate, she said: "She's doing better now that we got her the longer tubing to her oxygen tank.

Connie, giving her thoughts on why Vinnie's hot temper is less than normal, says: "Lucille must have fed him a Vallium smoothie this morning.

Lucille must have fed him a Vallium smoothie this morning.

Canada's Far North is where I knew I had to go.

The time that I would spend revisiting my old Get Your War On strips is more profitably spent Googling myself and reading comments about how people hate my pencil-sharpening business.

Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs.

To maintain the ability to admit and grow from our mistakes rather than let them defeat us represents best the inner strength of a people.

Political correctness is what right-wing bigots call what everybody else calls being polite

Before any great things are accomplished, a memorable change must be made in the system of education...to raise the lower ranks of society nearer to the higher.

I'm more interested in the writing than in the content per se (good writing can be about wallpaper and I'll devour it).

It's nothing mystical, necessarily. It's nothing secretive. It's just what we do with our body we do with our soul.

I have lost my oil and my labor. (Labored in vain.) [Lat., Oleum et operam perdidi.]

To me, a perfect album talks about the hard stuff and the fun and caring stuff.