Do you dislike your role in the story, your place in the shadow? What complaints do you have that the hobbits could not have heaved at Tolkien? You have been born into a narrative, you have been given freedom. Act, and act well until you reach your final scene.

Every four years, I'll watch figure skating, but I'm no closer to buying tights.

That wasn't me. I'm not a morning person. There's another person inside of me that does all the morning things.

Sometimes standing against evil is more important than defeating it.

Plato, the first true pope of philosophy (sorry, Socrates), argued for a World of Forms above the reality-a transcendent plane of perfect essences, pure and lovely, where nothing ever gets muddy (including the essence of mud.)

The fall of man did not introduce evil; it placed us on the wrong side of it, under its rule, needing rescue.

Horace smiled. "Always breakfast like a man condemned. One never knows that a day may bring."