Wrong takes an awful long time to be proven, in my experience.
Because no retreat from the world can mask what is in your face.
To read, even in the half-dark, is also to call the lost forward.
My first job was scooping ice cream at Friendly's in Albany, New York. I hated the work, most of my colleagues, and the uniform, and I more or less lost my taste for ice cream permanently.
Doubt was much more energy efficient than conviction.
Such silly things, children -- and so embarrassing -- because they keep changing themselves out of shame, out of a need to be loved or something. While animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do.