Work is the only only only remedy for life: for happiness, for interest, for stability, for security. Hard, willed work. Oh work!

Sleep tries to seduce me by promising a more reasonable tomorrow.

It's because I'm only interested in the big things that I'm not interested in politics.

Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the earth.

But the human spirit is resilient. God made us so. He gave us the ability to forgive. To leave our past behind. To look forward instead of back.

I must spin good ghosts out of my hope to oppose the hordes at my window. If those who look in see me condescend to barricade the door, they will know too much and crowd in to overcome me.

But those with shattered souls find it very difficult to speak.