To be alive is to take risks; to be always safe and secure is death.

One of the pleasant things about small town life is that everyone, whether rich or poor, liked or disliked, has some kind of a role and place in the community. I never felt that living in a city - as I once did for a couple of years.

Late in August the lure of the mountains becomes irresistible. Seared by the everlasting sunfire, I want to see running water again, embrace a pine tree, cut my initials in the bark of an aspen, get bit by a mosquito, see a mountain bluebird, find a big blue columbine, get lost in the firs, hike above timberline, sunbathe on snow and eat some ice, climb the rocks and stand in the wind at the top of the world on the peak of Tukuhnikivats.

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It is always dishonest for a reviewer to review the author instead of the author's book.

For this world that men have made, none of us is bad enough. For the world that made us, none is good enough.

James Joyce buried himself in his great work. _Finnegan's Wake_ is his monument and his tombstone. A dead end.