Historically, unfortunately, race seems to be the major division that humanity has imposed on itself, a way of subdividing into smaller groups.

Human beings need to watch out for reasonless niceness too. It's never reasonless and its reason's not usually nice.

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.

I recently bought a cat, but took it back a day later because our personalities clashed.

How lazily "xperts" dismiss what they fail to understand!

By each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.

But you have read Madame Bovary?' (I'd never heard of her books.) 'No.