... sometimes good people [are] helpless... terrible things happen... to good people... there [are] sad endings as well as happy ones.

Mister Cameron - I have read the unexpurgated Ovid, the love poems of Sappho, the Decameron in the original, and a great many texts in Greek and Latin histories that were not though fit for proper gentlemen to read, much less proper ladies. I know in precise detail what Caligula did to, and with, his sisters, and I can quote it to you in Latin or in my own translation if you wish. I am interested in historical truth, and truth in history is often unpleasant and distasteful to those of fine sensibility. I frankly doubt that you will produce anything to shock me.

If I'm walking on thin ice, I might as well dance my way across

Zen Hugs - the hugs that you would get, if we were there, if we could hug you, but we aren't, and we can't.

The freedom to swing your fist ends at my nose.

Fanatics can justify practically any atrocity to themselves. The more untenable their position becomes, the harder they hold to it, and the worse the things they are willing to do to support it.

How DARE the villainous cads be as clever as the heroes.