I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.

Freedom of speech gives you the right to stay silent.

He was alone in the darkness once more, but the darkness became brighter and brighter until it was burning like the sun.

The young man shivered. He rolled the stock themes of fantasy over in his mind: cars and stockbrokers and commuters, housewives and police, agony columns and commercials for soap, income tax and cheap restaurants, magazines and credit cards and streetlights and computers... 'It is escapism, true,' he said, aloud. 'But is not the highest impulse in mankind the urge toward freedom, the drive to escape?

Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.

From meetings and partings none can ever escape. Nor from magic.

Her other mother smiled brightly and the hair on her head drifted like plants under the sea.