We are ugly but we have the music.
After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.
Most of the time one is discouraged by the work, but now and again by some grace something stands out and invites you to work on it, to elaborate it or animate it in some way. It's a mysterious process.
You go your way I'll go your way too
Love is not a victory march
Today [people] are ready to take emergency cures, whatever they are, if it's violence, if it's a fascination with serial killing or whatever - the discomfort is so intense. Maybe it's always been like that, certainly it is now.