Only he with the hobbled foot fully knows the beauty of running. Only he with the severed ear can apprehend what the sweetest music must sound like. Our ailments complete us.

Okay let's get this over with, no I'm not seasick, yes I've always been green, No I didn't eat grass as a child.

It isn't whether you do it well or ill, it's that you do it all.

Yet who can say how our souls have been stamped by witnessing such a cruel drama? All souls are hostages to their human envelopes, but souls must decay and suffer at such indignity, don't you agree?

And a puzzle is for the piecing together, especially for the young, who still believe it can be done.

A man is called a traitor, or liberator. A rich man is a thief or philanthropist. Is one a crusader or ruthless invader? It's all in which label is able to persist.

I never write a book unless I can't help it. Something has to bother me, like a mosquito, until I have to do something to relieve the itch.