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 have written too much about lives - I feel I have lived for too long.

I talk to trees and animals. We have interesting conversations about food, weather, and love. They sometimes can predict the future.

Heroes are damned. No mortal conquers Death.

I envied these women I saw before me, their beauty still intact. Life has its revenge of life. Untimely death is the secret of eternal youth.

I splash my head with ice-cold water and turn to face the mirror. When my image appears I instinctively look away. Is there a truth on the other side that we do not want to see?

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