I Forget The Derivation Of Boxing Day,

When You're Young Your Mother Shields You From The World Because She Thinks You're Too Young To Understand, And When She's Old You Shield Her Because She's Too Old To Understand - Or To Have Any More Understanding Inflicted Upon Her. The Curve Of Life Goes: Want To Know, Know, Don't Want To Know.

The Best Musicians Answer Something In You When You Don't Even Know The Question.

Children Are The Proof We've Been Here . . . They're Where We Go To When We Die. They're The Best Thing And The Most Impossible Thing, But There's Nothing Else . . . Life Is A Riddle And They Are The Answer. If There's Any Answer, It Has To Be Them.

Women Run The Small Country Called Home, Millions Of Us Do It In Our Spare Time, And No One Who Doesn't Run That Small Country Really Knows What It Feels Like In The Dead Of Night When Task Lists Jitter Like Tickertape Through Your Seething Brain.

In Death, We Are Not Defined By What We Did Or Who We Were But By What We Meant To Others. How Well We Loved And Were Loved In Return.