Life is brutal that way ... the loss of irrecoverable moments amid trivia and distraction.

Stupidity has a price and it always gets paid.

There is a certain solipsism to serious illness which claims all of one's attention as certainly as an astronomical black hole seizes anything unlucky enough to fall within its critical radius.

Laws had a bad habit of being ignored or abrogated when societal push came to totalitarian shove.

Merely to live without a pain Is little gladness, little gain, Ah, welcome joy tho' mixt with grief-- The thorn-set flower that crowns the leaf.

I loved you backward and forward in time. I loved you beyond boundaries of time and space.

Books ... were merely nodes in a near-infinite matrix of information that exists in four dimensions, evolving toward the idea of the concept of the approximation of the shadow of Truth vertically through time as well as longitudinally through knowledge.