Good leaders being scarce, following yourself is allowed.

I thought, my love is so good, why isn't it calling the same thing back.

nothing is ever quite as bad as it could be.

I have written letters that are failures, but I have written few, I think, that are lies. Trying to reach a person means asking the same question over and over again: Is this the truth, or not? I begin this letter to you, then, in the western tradition. If I understand it, the western tradition is: Put your cards on the table.

I know that homes burn and that you should think what to save before they start to. Not because, in the heat of it, everything looks as valuable as everything else. But, because nothing looks worth the bother, not even your life.

The worst of it is over now, and I can't say that I am glad. Lose that sense of loss--you have gone and lost something else.

I leave a lot out when I tell the truth