An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be. - Steve Martin

If he thinks he would harm Mirabelle, he would back away. But he does not yet understand when and how people are hurt. He doesn't understand the subtleties of slights and pains, that it is not the big events that hurt the most but rather the smallest questionable shift in tone at the end of a spoken word that can plow most deeply into the heart.

might try for a doctorate in philosophy and become a teacher, as teaching is, after all, a form of show business.

A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.