We have traveled through space and time. We have been many places. Visited many worlds. And there is good news: the acoustics everywhere are terrific.

She holds up a finger. "I'm getting to it. Don't rush a girl in the middle of her exposition.

I hate high heels. Walking in high heels for eight hours a day should be forbidden by the Geneva Convention.

Careful there, Poet. I might start to believe you.

How terrible it is to have no cares, no longings. I do not fit. I feel too deeply and want too much. As cages go, it is a gilded one, but I shall not live well in it or any cage for that matter.

Scoring well on tests is the sort of happy thing that gets the school district the greenbacks they crave. Understanding and appreciating the material are secondary.

Nobody Wants to be themselves. That's why there's tv. -Ephigenia.