Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan. - Thornton Wilder

As Plato, the dangerous beguiler, said: the best philosophers in the world are boys with their beards new on their chins; I am a boy again.

The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.

Without your wounds where would your power be? It is your melancholy that makes your low voice tremble into the hearts of men and women. The very angels themselves cannot persuade the wretched and blundering children on earth as can one human being broken on the wheels of living. In Love’s service, only wounded soldiers can serve. Physician, draw back.