Ideas on earth were badges of friendship or enimity. Their content did not matter. Friends agreed with friends, in order to express friendliness. Enemies disagreed with enemies, in order to express enimity.

My soul seemed as foul as smoke from burning cat fur.

You can't teach people to write well. Writing well is something God lets you do or declines to let you do.

I can't tell if you're serious or not,' said the driver. I won't know myself until I find out if life is serious or not,' said Trout. 'It's dangerous, I know, and it can hurt a lot. That doesn't necessarily mean it's serious, too.

And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

To be is to do - Socrates To do is to be - Sartre Do Be Do Be Do - Sinatra

See the cat? See the cradle?