A great deal of phenomenal experience has fostered in me a flexibility of the mind and imagination that some might call madness

That was one of the most fundamental and sacred duties good friends and families performed for one another! They tended the flame of memory, so no one’s death meant an immediate vanishment from the world; in some sense the deceased would live on after their passing, at least as long as those who loved them lived. Such memories were an essential weapon against the chaos of life and death, a way to ensure some continuity from generation to generation, an order of endorsement and meaning.

The retriever took each bit of meat from his master's hand with a delicacy almost equal to that of a hummingbird sipping sugar water from a garden feeder, and when it was all gone, he gazed up at Dusty with an adoration that could not have been much less than the love with which the angels regard God.

No, if there's any ultimate redemption, it would be because I passed though your life without scarring you, and did not diminish who you are.

Death came, Death went, but Commerce flowed Eternal.

I've not seen in my lifetime any politician who is a heroic figure. The manipulation that all politicians use on one level or another is so transparent.

While I like people, I do also like being alone in a room and seeing what you can do with a particular theme or subject.