People don't like reality, they don't like common sense, until age forces it on them. - Graham Greene

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear which is inherent in the human condition.

...he knew there wasn't a soul in the mob he could trust – except perhaps Dallow. That didn't matter. You couldn't make mistakes when you trusted nobody.

It was not the kind of surroundings in which any one with free will — if such a man existed — would have chosen to await death.