You have been asking what you could do in the great events that are now stirring, and have found that you could do nothing. But that is because your suffering has caused you to phrase the question in the wrong way.

Can you be serious for two words?" "Not without effort.

That's what does it-- that moment where you think you're lost, and then discover that you're not, that you've never really left. There's something that happens in that incredible tiny no-time, and that something is like the revelation of learning.

Minneapolis has two seasons: Road Removal and Snow Repair.

True heroics must be carefully planned - and strenuously avoided.

Everybody generalizes from one example. At least, I do.

I guess there's just a time for doing dumb things.