The imaginary audience for my life is growing small and silent.

Violence stops thought. Hence its popularity as a pain-killer.

Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.

Emblem: the carapace of the great crowned snail is painted with all the flags of the United Nations.

Always clamping down on excitement is not self-control but fear.

If the world would apologize, I might consider a reconciliation.

Robert Frost: plain, strong, simple, and mean.