Life's too damn funny for me to explain.

This is another day! Are its eyes blurred with maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt! Let dust clasp dust, death, death; I am alive!

Give up the dream that Love may trick the fates To live again somewhere beyond the gleam Of dying stars, or shatter the strong gates Some god has builded high; give up the dream.

An old stomach reforms more whiskey drinkers than a new resolve.

Life is one damned kitten after another." Mehitabel the Alley Cat

My heart hath followed all my days Something I cannot name.

Just as soon as the uplifters get a country reformed it slips into a nose dive.