A curse on this game. How can you stick at a game when the rules keep on changing? I shall call myself Alice and play croquet with the flamingos. In Wonderland everyone cheats and love is Wonderland, isn't it?

We are all historians in our small way.

Why did I walk so purposefully in a straight line? Where would it take me? He went round and round and we got there all the same.

Names are still magic; even Sharon, Karen, Darren, and Warren are magic to somebody somewhere. In fairy stories, naming is knowledge. When I know your name, I can call your name, and when I call your name, you'll come to me.

As your lover describes you, so you are.

You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play. It’s the playing that’s irresistible. Dicing from one year to the next with the things you love, what you risk reveals what you value.

Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places.