Pets are always a great help in times of stress. And in times of starvation too, o'course.

When people say "clearly" something that means there's a huge crack in their argument and they know things aren't clear at all.

I was merely endeavoring to indicate that if we do not grab events by the collar they will have us by the throat. -Lord Vetinari

Knowing how bad you could be is a great encouragement to being good.

Real children do not go hoppity skip unless they are on drugs.

The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.

That was always the dream, wasn't it? 'I wish I'd known then what I know now'? But when you got older you found out that you NOW wasn't YOU then. You then was a twerp. You then was what you had to be to start out on the rocky road of becoming you now, and one of the rocky patches on that road was being a twerp.