hope for the best, prepare for the worst

Even monkeys fall from trees.

Do not waste your life waiting for wings. Trust that you can already fly.

Why was he drawn to complicated women, or were all women--all people, finally--complicated?

I know my mom always likes to give the over-the-top 'wow' pieces at baby showers.

Doolittle was a major influence on the Seattle grunge scene, which emerged in the early 1990s.

Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.

You've got to be a disciplined person if you want to succeed both in sport and in life.

Payments to the disabled are getting slashed and people like me are getting a tax cut. Who could possibly think that is a good thing?

Those people who think only of themselves, are hopelessly uneducated. They are not educated, no matter how instructed they may be.

No one is obliged to take a position on the urgent issues of the day, but there are times when our impoverished public sphere could do with some occasional assertions of literary and moral authority.

You are the only warmth in my heart. The only sunshine my winter has ever known. (Talon)