Without alienation, there can be no politics.

Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it.

Cleave to no faith when faith brings blood.

In a dream, we are simply confronted with various loaded symbols, and where one is exhausted, it gives way to another.

After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive.

And yet one can't forever stand on the shore; at some point, even if filled with indecision, skepticism, reservation and doubt, you either jump in or concede that life is forever elsewhere.

It may be that even if half consciously, we choose our personalities to maintain a certain saving balance in the family's little universe.