It took most people a lifetime to join the human race.

A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a noose.

How clerks love refusing. It salves them for being clerks.

In a family, the same spoken lines come in over and over. Intimacy exhausts.

But the trek that starts with the feet always rises in time to the head. There had never been any of mankind's that didn't.

Diplomacy is what is practiced after-the-fact. Never be too right too soon -- as any smart Uncle will tell you. The man who guesses what will happen will be blamed for it. No one will believe he has merely guessed.

First publication is a pure, carnal leap into that dark which one dreams is life.