It's okay to love something bigger than yourself without fearing it. Anything worth loving is bigger than we are anyway. - Percival Everett

Why are people so fucked up?” I asked
“Maybe you do need college, Poiter,” Everett said. “You want to know why people are so fucked up? Son, that’s about the only question I can answer with even a small measure of authority. It’s because they’re people. People, my friend, are worse than anybody.

It's incredible that a sentence is ever understood. Mere sounds strung together by some agent attempting to mean some thing but the meaning need not, and does not, confine itself to that intention.

Anyone who speaks to members of his family knows that sharing a language does not mean you share the rules governing the use of that language.