But some things, no matter how unlikely, are just supposed to happen. You know what I mean. Some things just smack of the future and feel part of an overarching rightness.

I know how syrupy this sounds, how dull, provincial, and possibly whitewashed, but what can I do? Happy childhoods happen

...nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth.

Your past isn’t there to decide who you are

I don't ask why patients lie, I just assume they all do.-Greg House

The power of thought, the vast regions it can master.

Ironically, the more intensive and far-reaching a historian's research, the greater the difficulty of citation. As the mountain of material grows, so does the possibility of error.

Ack!" I said. Fearless master of the witty dialogue, that's me.

You have to learn to interrupt because you aren't going to get called on.

I am convinced that our movement will be more demoralized and weakened by blind and uncritical admiration than by frank admission of past mistakes.

Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.