Remember we’re all in this alone. -Lily Tomlin-

The only hope of reward is the cessation of pain.

I did get a life! This is it! -Leroy Lockhorn, “The Lockhorns”-

Q: In school we learned that the world is round like a ball. So why don’t the people on the bottom fall off? A: You’ve stated a common misconception here. Actually, people are falling off all the time!

If only the sun-drenched celebrities are being noticed and worshiped, then our children are going to have a tough time seeing the value in the shadows, where the thinkers, probers and scientists are keeping society together. -Rita Dove-

When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road. -William Least Heat-Moon-

It is my opinion that art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship. It severed an umbilical cord and now lives its own sterile life, generating and degenerating itself. In former days the artist remained unknown and his work was to the glory of God…. The ability to create was a gift. In such a world flourished invulnerable assurance and natural humility. -Ingmar Bergman-

Ooey Gooey was a worm / Ooey Gooey loved to squirm / One day, Ooey Gooey got stepped on / OOEY GOOEY!

Our children give us the opportunity to become the parents we always wished we had. -Nancy Samalin (“Love and Anger: The Parental Dilemma”, Dec. 1992 Reader’s Digest)-

Creation has the truth written all over it — the age of the universe, the history of the world — but nine-tenths of mankind either don’t know it or think it’s a sham, because it isn’t what their book or their prophet says, and it isn’t cozy or manipulable enough. -Sheri S. Tepper-