Ignorance is a self-generating state of mind; one of its characteristics is that it doesn't recognize itself as ignorance.

A novelist is on the cusp between someone who knows everything and someone who knows nothing.

Men are competent in groups that mimic the playground, incompetent in groups that mimic the family

Some people do wait their whole lives for something, and it's only when that thing arrives that they find out that they've been waiting rather than living.

People are quite frequently eccentric.

Combined families often get bad reviews, but the family my children got when they traded away 'the suffocating four-person' nuclear one is one that has benefited all of them.

A horse herd was, in its very essence, the manifestation of the expression 'It's always something.