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

People are like tea bags; you never know how strong they'll be until they're in hot water. In times of trouble, you not only discover what you truly believe but whether or not you can act on your beliefs.

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.

When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.

Normal is the average of deviance.

England is an aquarium, not a nation.

People who care for you inevitably become beautiful.