For God's sake,' the dog is saying, 'open the universe a little more!

Is our species crazy? Plenty of evidence.

A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.

You have, like the external world, your own phenomena inside.

And I'm convinced that knowing the names of things braces people up.

Here we write well when we expose frauds and hypocrites. We are great at counting warts and blemishes and weighting feet of clay. In expressing love, we belong among the underdeveloped countries.

Towards the end of your life you have something like a pain schedule to fill out - a long schedule like a federal document, only it's your pain schedule. Endless categories. First, physical causes - like arthritis, gallstones, menstrual cramps. New category, injured vanity, betrayal, swindle, injustice. But the hardest items of all have to do with love. The question then is: So why does everybody persist? If love cuts them up so much.