Staring into the dragon's maw, one quickly learns wisdom.

Appropriate action means to advance your own goals, without unintentional harm to anyone else.

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.

You can't put something together again unless you've torn it apart first.

Minneapolis has two seasons: Road Removal and Snow Repair.

In our memories, there is a graveyard where we bury our dead. They all lie there together, the loved ones and the ones we hated, friends and foes and kin, with no distinction among them. We have to mourn every one of them, because our memories have made them as much a part of us as our bones or our skin. If we don't, we've no right to remember anything at all.

There are millions of ways for people to die, if you number each vital organ, each ways it can fail, all the poisons from the earth and the sea which can cause these failures.