If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
Fish," the old man said. "Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?
Oh, darling, I've been so miserable.
It is silly not to hope, besides I believe it is a sin." The Old Man and the Sea
Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.
They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.