Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships.

I don't visit my parents often because Delta Airlines won't wait in the yard while I run in.

Hope costs nothing.

Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.

Modern life is confusing - no "Ms. take" about it.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.