Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us and many of us much worse.
John OsborneThe schoolteacher is certainly underpaid as a childminder, but ludicrously overpaid as an educator.
John OsborneWe all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.
John Osborne