Your discovery, as best as I can determine, is that there is an alternative which no one has hit upon. It is that one finding oneself in one of life's critical situations need not after all respond in one of the traditional ways. No. One may simply default. Pass. Do as one pleases, shrug, turn on one's heel and leave. Exit. Why after all need one act humanly?

Lucky is the man who does not secretly believe that every possibility is open to him.

We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their face away.

Life is fits and starts, mostly fits.

Children notice things first, people later.

[In art] you are telling the reader or the listener or the viewer something he already knows but which he doesn't quite know that he knows, so that in the action of communication he experiences a recognition, a feeling that he has been there before, a shock of recognition.

I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free.