Hahnji, mister, you must be patient. Before you can name that corner, our future must become past.

Where humans are concerned, the only emotion that made sense was wonder, at their ability to endure.

Children don't make judgments about which details are important... a child captures them all.

Walk, first, through the fire, then philosophize.

...the face has limited space. My mother used to say, if you fill your face with laughing, there will be no more room for crying.

There didn't seem to her any harm in it, and the make-believe was so comforting.

The carnage upon the chessboard of life, left wounded humans in its wake