Life is pain, anyone who says differently is selling something.

This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society.

Thus Dante's motto over Inferno applies with equal force to marriage: "Ye who enter here leave all hope behind."

The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet.