There have been mutterings that the whole food thing has gone too far in America, but I think not. Good food is a benign weapon against the sodden wa… - Jim Harrison

people have an instinct to be useful and can’t handle the relentless everydayness of life unless they work hard. It is sheer idleness that deadens the soul and causes neuroses.

[...] I finally understood that death and numbers don't cohere. Everyone is 'one.' An accident report might say that nine died, four of them in their teens, but each death was 'one.' Each of six million Jews was 'one.' With death it is a series of 'ones.

It's very difficult to look at the World
and into your heart at the same time.
In between, a life has passed.