People pontificate, "Suicide is selfishness." Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call in a cowardly assault on the living. Oafs argue this specious line for varying reason: to evade fingers of blame, to impress one's audience with one's mental fiber, to vent anger, or just because one lacks the necessary suffering to sympathize. Cowardice is nothing to do with it - suicide takes considerable courage. Japanese have the right idea. No, what's selfish is to demand another to endure an intolerable existence, just to spare families, friends, and enemies a bit of soul-searching.

Reality is the page. Life is the word.

I often lose myself in the Sudoku-like challenges of making a book work.

The body is the outermost layer of the mind.

I remain thankful to God for all his mercies.

It's true that stammerers can become more adept at sentence construction.

Music’s a wood you walk through.