But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?""Easy," said the cat. "Think of somebody walking around the world. You start out walking away from something and end up coming back to it.""Small world," said Coraline."It's big enough for her," said the cat. "Spider's webs only have to be large enough to catch flies.

It's not sipping wine. It's a mourning wine. You drain it. Like this.

Pain shared, my brother, is pain not doubled but halved. No man is an island

There are three things, and three things only, that can lift the pain of mortality and ease the ravages of life. These are wine, women and song.