maybe the meaning of life lies in looking for it

Peace, though beloved of our Lord, is a cardinal virtue only if your neighbors share your conscience.

Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book.

I believe death is only a door. One closes, and another opens. If I were to imagine heaven, I would imagine a door opening. And he would be waiting for me there.

There's a link between bigotry and bad spelling.

Spent the fortnight gone in the music room reworking my year's fragments into a 'sextet for overlapping soloists': piano, clarinet, 'cello, flute, oboe, and violin, each in its own language of key, scale, and color. In the first set, each solo is interrupted by its successor; in the second, each interruption is recontinued, in order. Revolutionary or gimmicky? Shan't know until it's finished, and by then it'll be too late.

Go to hell, Willy, our souls eat poetry, but one has seven deadly sins to feed!