If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. – Anne Bradstreet
How wonderfully these pictures have caught the look of tentative spring—spring waiting for a single day to burst into living green. – Alice Morse Earle, “In Lilac Tide,” Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth, 1901
I mean, I dont think Im alone when I look at the homeless person or the bum or the psychotic or the drunk or the drug addict or the criminal and see their baby pictures in my minds eye. You dont think they were cute like every other baby? – Dustin Hoffman
Theres a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up – or didnt – and Jamaican stories. – Neil Gaiman