Death is always less painful and easier than life! You speak true. And yet we do not, day to day, choose death. Because ultimately, death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice. Death is what you get when there are no choices left to make.

When considering a man's motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same standard at all.

Everybody has felt at one time or another that everyone else in the world had a better shot than they did, so when you engage that, you engage the reader, and I think you create a character that brings the reader more fully into the story.

What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world? - Fool

King Shrewd is expecting me, rather he isn't expecting me, and that is precisely why I must go to him now.

Life is not a race to restore a past situation. Nor does one have to hurry to meet the future. Seeing how things change is what makes life interesting.

But a living is not a life.