If you do more than your share you'd better want to: otherwise, you're paying yourself in a currency recognized nowhere else.

It is the empty seats that listen most raptly.

The happy and the suffering probably understand life equally well, but the sufferers may see a little more clearly how little it is that they understand.

Who breaks the thread, the one who pulls, the one who holds on?

How sure we are that everyone's watching. How sure we are that no one sees.

Anger has been ready to be angry.

Nothing important comes with instructions.