There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with. – Harry Crews
People meet in bars after work all over the world and talk about the great problems of life and death and the world and politics and they dont take themselves seriously. They can do nothing else except chat about these things in bars after work. – Whitfield Diffie
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes along. – Samuel Butler, “Speech at the Somerville Club,” 27 February 1895
