And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.

The big show is inside my head.

I wish we had all been born birds instead.

in nonsense is strength

Big, undreamed-of things — the people on the edge see them first.

But anyway, it's obvious through human experience that extended families and tribes are terribly important. We can do without an extended family as human beings about as easily as we can do without vitamins or essential minerals.

Scum of the Earth as some may be in their daily lives, they can all be saints in emergencies.