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.

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

The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind.

The young show the genetic process, the old merely die of it.

Balance is compromise. Of the muscles.

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

I get up and I have coffee and I speak to no man and I go to my desk.