I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares.

I'm not stupid!" In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy.

In my view, suicide is not really a wish for life to end.' What is it then?' It is the only way a powerless person can find to make everybody else look away from his shame. The wish is not to die, but to hide.

Everything possible to be believed is an image of truth." -Taleswapper

The only process you've mastered is the process of elimination, and the only reason you've mastered that is because you can do it in the toilet.

We need a Napoleon. An Alexander. Except that Napoleon lost in the end, and Alexander flamed out and died young. We need a Julius Caesar, except that he made himself a dictator, and died for it.

It's as if every conversation with a woman was a test, and men always failed it, because they always lacked the key to the code and so they never quite understood what the conversation was really about.