Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are always smarter than their parents.

If it had and answer, it wouldn't really be love, would it?

This brings me back to the image of Kafka standing before a fish in the Berlin aquarium, a fish on which his gaze fell in a newly found peace after he decided not to eat animals. Kafka recognized that fish as a member of his invisible family- not as his equal, of course, but as another being that was his concern.

It’s a rule that we never listen to sad music, we made that rule early on, songs are as sad as the listener, we hardly ever listen to music.

The images of his infinite pasts and infinite futures washed over him as he waited, paralyzed, in the present.

And also, there are so many times when you need to make a quick escape, but humans don't have their own wings, or not yet, anyway, so what about a birdseed shirt?

Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use, and the regular exercise of choosing kindness over cruelty would change us.