Nothing endures. Not a tree. Not love. Not even death by violence.

My father was in the coal business in West Virginia. Both dad and mother were, however, originally from Massachusetts; New England, to them, meant the place to go if you really wanted an education.

Peace is indivisible, and the surrounding world confusion found no reflection inside me.

the scornful force of his tone turned the word into a curse

Looking back now across fifteen years I could see with great clarity the fear I had lived in, which must mean that in the interval I had succeeded in a very important undertaking: I must have made my escape from it.

We are all born equally far from the sun.

Sarcasm... the protest of those who are weak.