No one does. No one really knows how to be happy. You just get close, sometimes. That’s all I want – just to be close.

We all reconstruct our past because we wish to see how our present came to be our present - do we not?

Oh, propriety," says Mrs Benjamin. "We're always so concerned with propriety. Even in total madness, we still stick to our hierarchies and chains of command.

No one does. No one really knows how to be happy. You just get close, sometimes. That’s all I want – just to be close.

The older you get, the more voices you get in the back of your head.

Voters might have short memories. Politicians do not.

The gods are cruel not because they make us work. They are cruel because they allow us to hope.