My senior-year English teacher in high school managed to prove to us that all of literature was about two things, sex and/or death. After graduating from high school I went to study in Israel, and was greeted with a suicide bombing happening not ten minutes away from my dormitory. Later that evening, I wrote her an e-mail.

"Dear Ms. P.

I've been in Israel for just over a day now. Too much death, not enough sex.

-Ari"

last summer I bumped into her on the street, she remembered the e-mail. :-)