“A lack of common sense usually ends in some heroic feat, much like the soldier who dives onto the grenade so that others may live.”

“After some cogitation, it is difficult not to agree with Herman Bondi (1919 - 2005), who in his book 'Relativity and Common Sense' says:... The surprising thing, surely, is that molecules in a gas behave so much as billiard balls, not that electrons behave so little like billiard balls.”

“Heroes may be less than heroic, while the common man saves the day.”

“Friends don't have to have a lot of things in common. But there's one thing friends usually do have in common - a sense of humor. That doesn't mean they find all the same things funny. Sometimes, they might even laugh at each other. But at the end of the day, friends can always laugh with each other.”

“in the end, each life is irreducible to anything other than itself. Which is as much as to say: lives make no sense.”

“I could almost see common sense and denial fighting away at each other within her. In the end, denial won, as it so often does.”