Everybody acts as if they have free will. They act as if they can make these decisions; do they know they don't? I think there's been some back-down on the idea that everything is determined.

Although from you I far must roam, do not be broken hearted. We two, who in the souls are one, are never truly parted.

They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing.

Don't be married to a line or verse if it can't rhyme, fit the meter, or doesn't fit the outline.

Gravity works in your life, the notion of free will works in your life, however problematic it may at times be.

It's a lifelong failing: she has never been prepared. But how can you have a sense of wonder if you're prepared for everything? Prepared for the sunset. Prepared for the moonrise. Prepared for the ice storm. What a flat existence that would be.

She wasn't ready to settle down, she told her friends. That was one way of putting it. Another was would have been that she had not found anyone to settle down with. There had been several men in her life, but they hadn't been convincing. They'd been somewhat like her table - quickly acquired, brightened up a little, but temporary. The time for that kind of thing was running out, however. She was tired of renting.