The world's a hard place, Danny. It don't care. It don't hate you and me, but it don't love us, either. Terrible things happen in the world, and they're things no one can explain. Good people die in bad, painful ways and leave the folks that love them all alone. Sometimes it seems like it's only the bad people who stay healthy and prosper. The world don't love you, but your momma does and so do I.

Paul LePage has become a terrible embarrassment to the state I live in and love. If he won't govern, he should resign.

A broken spoon may be a fork in disguise.

Has it ever occurred to you that parents are nothing but overgrown kids until their children drag them into adulthood? Usually kicking and screaming?

Ka works and the world moves on.

I do have one slightly crooked wheel upstairs, but everything else is ticking along just four-o, thank you very much.

Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity.