One reason we have children I think is to learn that parts of ourselves we had given up for dead are merely dormant and that the old joys can re emerge fresh and new and in a completely different form.
Americans admire success. Englishmen admire heroic failure
The action most worth watching is not at the center of things, but where edges meet.
It is a grave error to assume that ice cream consumption requires hot weather.
Pen-bereavement is a serious matter.
...the reader who plucks a book from her shelf only once is as deprived as the listener who, after attending a single performance of a Beethoven symphony, never hears it again.