Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are.

I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me.

there's no defense except all the errors made

When you clean up a city, you destroy it.

Experience can dull. With most men experience is a series of mistakes; the more experience you have the less you know.

If there are junk yards in hell, love is the dog that guards the gates.

I had decided against religion a couple of years back. If it were true, it made fools out of people, or it drew fools. And if it weren't true, the fools were all the more foolish. What I need is a good doctor, I thought. You either lived or died.