If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be.
When your suffering is a little greater than my suffering I feel that I am a little cruel.
Situated in some nebulous distance I do what I do so that the universal balance of which I am a part may remain a balance.
Beyond my body my veins are invisible.
My father, when he went, made my childhood a gift of a half a century.
You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.