Man is troubled by what might be called the Dog Wish, a strange and involved compulsion to be as happy and carefree as a dog. - James Thurber

Ride close together. Remember laughter. You'll need it even in the blessed isles of Ever After.

"You are all a lost generation," Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but we wouldn't go home. Ours was the generation that stayed up all night.

If a playwright tried to see eye to eye with everybody, he would get the worst case of strabismus since Hannibal lost an eye trying to count his nineteen elephants during a snowstorm while crossing the Alps.