The presence of evil was something to be first recognized, then dealt with, survived, outwitted, triumphed over.

Would it be all right? Would it be all right to go ahead and feel? Go ahead and count on something?

Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It's not having no responsibilitie s; it's choosing the ones you want.

This word "LOVE" - discredited, "clicheed" - can be restored and love, the instinct, the impulse to care for somebody in the hope that somebody will care for you - plus our language, the language, a language - is about all we have. With everything else going on, this is what makes us, what keeps us human.

It was becoming a habit-this concentration on things behind him. Almost as though there were no future to be had. *Milkman*

A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.

There is really nothing more to say - except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.