You can't win, you can't break even, and you can't get out of the fucking game. - Harlan Ellison

AM said it with the shriek of babies being ground beneath blue–hot rollers.

"The mistake we all make is in assuming anybody remembers anydamnthing from one day to the next. If that were true, we'd stop getting involved with approximately the same kind of wrong lover each time, we'd learn the lessons of history, the death penalty would discourage those plotting murder, and George Santayana's famous quote would be about as popular as "the bee's knees." But few of us keep accurate records of what we've learned as we hobble through life barking our shins in the dark on experiences we've already had...."

Who among us can deny that within every adult is caged a frightened child?