If it's ka it'll come like a wind, and your plans will stand before it no more than a barn before a cyclone - Stephen King

If you write books, you go on one page at a time. We turn from all we know and all we fear. We study catalogues, watch football games, choose Sprint over AT&T. We count the birds in the sky and will not turn from the window when we hear the footsteps behind as something comes up the hall; we say yes, I agree that clouds often look like other things - fish and unicorns and men on horseback - but they are really only clouds. Even when the lightning flashes inside them we say they are only clouds and turn our attention to the next meal, the next pain, the next breath, the next page.
This is how we go on.

If I have to spend time in purgatory before going to one place or the other, I guess I'll be all right as long as there's a lending library.

If dogs could fly, nobody would go out without an umbrella.