Students never appreciate their teachers while they are learning. It is only later, when they know more of the world, that they understand how indebted they are to those who instructed them. Good teachers expect no praise or love from the young. They wait for it, and in time, it comes.

I know that no matter how lonely I get, I'll never be truly alone again. Our loved ones don't leave us. They just move out of sight for a while, and wait...in the shades.

If mankind's destined to bite the bullet, let's bite it and be damned.

Throw up whatever's making you sick, Darren," he said, "then get your behind back in here.

I gulped, then stepped over the threshold into the house where I'd lived as a boy. After eighteen long years of wandering, I had finally come home.

It is too easy to say 'what if' and paint a picture of a perfect world.

But I don't think Art's an Einstein - he likes tugging ears, biting people and burping too much to be a genius.