Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.

In the real world as in dreams nothing is quite what it seems. -The Book of Counted Sorrows

Each book is a mind alive, a life revealed, a world awaiting exploration, but living people are all those things, as well—and more, because their stories haven’t yet been completely told.

Maybe the devil in human beings isn't the reflection of the devil, perhaps the devil is only a reflection of the savagery and brutality of our kind. Maybe what we've done is create the devil in our own image

Language can't describe reality. Literature has no stable reference, no real meaning. Each reader's interpretation is equally valid, more important than the author's intention. In fact, nothing in life has meaning. Reality is subjective. Values and truths are subjective. Life itself is a kind of illusion. Blah, blah, blah, let's have another scotch.

What year these events transpired is of no consequence. Where they occured is not important. The time is always, and the place is everywhere.

Change isn't easy. Changing the way you live means changing the way you think, means changing what you believe about life. That's hard.