The animals have no need for speech, why talk when you are a word.

When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.

In Shakespeare Saved My Life, [author Laura Bates] said she got better papers from [prisoners] than she got from people in her regular classes. Because she was teaching, of course, Macbeth, and a number of them had murdered people. The guy who wrote the best paper said, "You do have this, 'Is this a dagger which I see before me?' before you do it, but in my case it was a gun."

If he wants to be an asshole, it's a free country. Millions before him have made the same life choice.

I think calling it climate change is rather limiting. I would rather call it the everything change.

It's true that there is a rescue thing in people, and not just rescuing the family, which is kind of obvious from a biological point of view. But why is it that some people will jump into a freezing river and swim out to a downed plane for total strangers? What is that about? And it seems to be that it's part of your concept of who you are. That's why some people run into the burning buildings, because if they don't, their concept of who they are will be violated. They wouldn't be who they thought they were.

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