Authority is conferred by position, not character.
Nobody knows the trouble I've seen: even less, the trouble I've successfully avoided.
Joy goes as deep as sorrow, but leaves less of itself behind.
Placing the extraordinary at the center of the ordinary, as realism does, is a great comfort to us stay-at-homes.
Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.
Hope, and hopelessness, persist despite the facts.