Bleeding isn't optional for most of us.

Isen wasn't a two birds with one stone kind of guy. More like one stone, two birds, a rabbit, a fox, and maybe that deer will trip over the fox and we can get him, too.

Living is very serious, very real. It is also always a game. If we are wise, it is very real, very terrible, and very lovely, and a good deal of fun.

Who wants to feel everything everyone else feels all the time?

It's okay to play turtle for a while, as long as you don't get too fond of your shell.

Don't call the man a claustrophobe just because small spaces scare him. Right.

But not all scars showed, did they?