What do I miss? Second-hand bookshops where I can find things I had no idea I wanted. AbeBooks helps, but it doesn't have that smell.

Do ants get headaches?

Teachers're always using that "in your own words." I hate that. Authors knit their sentences tight. It's their job. Why make us unpick them, just to put it back together more shonkily? How're you s'posed to say Kapellmeister if you can't say Kapellmeister?

True knowledge without xperience is food without sustenance

I remain thankful to God for all his mercies.

As long as you can Houdini your way out of the Sisyphean constraints then originality happens.

...there ain't no journey what don't change you some.