Endless moons, an opaque universe, thunder, tornadoes, the quaking earth. Rare moments of peace; forehead up against my knees, arms around my head, I though, I listened, I longed not to exist. but life was there, a transparent pearl, a star revolving slowly on its own axis.

Happiness is something you lay siege to, it is a battle like a game of go. I will take hold of all the pain and snuff it out.

I notice the silvery hair at his temples with a tinge of sadness. Why do parents grow old? Life is a castle of lies slowly dismantled by the passage of time. I regret not spending more time looking at the people I love.

To other women the choice of clothes was a form of ingenious exhibition, a shameless seduction. To me, dresses were like a breastplate that I put on to set off to war against this life.

Tomorrow we will be nothing but earth and dust. Who will remember the love a soldier once knew?

Politicians are better liars than writers.

Heroes are damned. No mortal conquers Death.