I didn't even know what the feeling was, really, just that there was a lot of it.

March 4th, the only day that is also a sentence

There are times when you just have to let it all out. All the anger, all the pain.

You may be smart, but I've been smart longer.

I'm on a roller coaster that only goes up," he said. "And it is my privilege and my responsibility to ride all the way up with you," I said.

The world," he said, "is not a wish-granting factory," and then he broke down, just for one moment, his sob roaring impotent like a clap of thunder unaccompanied by lightning, the terrible ferocity that amateurs in the field of suffering might mistake for weakness.

Barnacles on the container ship of consciousness.