We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out.

I take responsibility only for the future, not the past. The past can't hurt you the way the future can.

It appears history is going to keep happening, despite our hopes for retirement.

The world was floods above and fire below

Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.

It's been a long rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness.

I actually prefer female voices to listen to, mostly, but among the male singers whose voices I like are Jeff Buckley, Art Garfunkel, that sort of voice. Contemporary crooners rather than rockers.