Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.

Tragedy massages the human ego even as comedy deflates it. ... Tragedy pits us against large foes and the trip wire is our own character. ... In comedy we fall afoul of one another. Comedy depends on social life, on our behavior in groups. In tragedy you can observe one human against the gods. In comedy it's one human versus other humans and often one man (or woman if I'm writing it) against her own worst impulses.

Women need to feel loved and men need to feel needed.

It doesn't matter to me. We're still cousins in our own way. Blood's just something old people talk about to make you feel bad.

England is an aquarium, not a nation.

Youth moves out, leaving no forwarding address. No matter how you try, you can't reach that person again or that place.

There's a thin line between collectivity and chaos.