History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That's why events are always reinterpreted when values change. We need new versions of history to allow for our current prejudices.

I still read newspaper comics, but without much hope for their future.

I asked mom if I was a gifted child. She said they certainly wouldn't have paid for me.

Hee hee hee! You should've seen the look on your face!" "If mom and dad cared about me at all, they'd buy me some infra-red nighttime vision goggles.

My likely historical significance is a terrible burden. ~ Calvin

It's only work if somebody makes you do it.

As far as I'm concerned, if something is so complicated that you can't explain it in 10 seconds, then it's probably not worth knowing anyway.