What have I eaten? Lies and smiles.

The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn't thought about it.

Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.

So learn about life. Cut yourself a big slice with the silver server, a big slice of pie. Open your eyes. Let life happen.

And the danger is that in this move toward new horizons and far directions, that I may lose what I have now, and not find anything except loneliness

The silence drew off, baring the pebbles and shells and all the tatty wreckage of my life.

Even amidst fierce flames the golden lotus can be planted.