Haven't you always been more than yourself? Haven't we all? We are none of us just one thing.

The twin gods, Necessity and Chance, walked among the stars. What needed to be, was; what might be, sometimes was.

However strenuously the world pulls us apart, however long the absence, we are not changed for being dashed upon the rocks. I knew you then, I know you now, I shall know you again when you come home.

Did I become court composer through masterful procrastination? Hardly!

The truth may not be told. Here is an acceptable lie.

Was it probably true that reasoning beings were equal? It seemed more like a belief than a fact, even if I agreed with it. If you followed logic all the way back to its origin, did you inevitably end up at point of illogic, an article of faith?

I was drawn to his aloofness, the way cats gravitate toward people who’d rather avoid them.