Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some.

And sometimes it happened, for a time. That kind of love comes and goes and is hard to remember afterwards, like pain. You would look at the man one day and you would think, I loved you, and the tense would be past, and you would be filled with a sense of wonder, because it was such an amazing and precarious and dumb thing to have done; and you would know too why your friends have been evasive about it, at the time.

Nevertheless, blood is thicker than water, as anyone knows who has tasted both.

Marshall McLuhan is absolutely right, we are always looking in the rear view mirror.

Some travelers think they want to go to foreign places but are dismayed when the places turn out actually to be foreign.

There is no fool like an educated fool.

There would be no Sherlock Holmes if it were not for serial publication.