But damn it all, aren't we just as some great playwright or someone said, actors on a stage. - J. P. Donleavy

Life getting like a merrygoround with people getting on and off and no one paying for the ride.

Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.

I comforted her with readings from this Aquinas because he says it's good for you. And I said, tenderly earwards, heads on the pillow, that from manure, lilies grow. To know the real goodness one had to be bad and of sin. What good is it to God for a child to be born pure, to live purely and die purely. Where was the grace in that shallow, white sterility? You don't want that stuff. No. Get down it, down. The greatest whiteness is touched with black. The righteous were a sneaky bunch anyway.