Newspapers blew on dirty floors. Littering is an ancillary function of the free press. - Roger Kahn

I wonder if anyone always knows-you, me, Jackie Robinson, even Robert Frost-that we will cross to Safety. Or is it rather that when we are There, we think we always knew?

The time seems simpler than today, but mostly because the past always seems simpler when its wars are done.

The world is never again as it was before anyone you love has ever died; never so innocent, never so fixed, never so gentle, never so pliant to your will. But these are afterthoughts. Generations vie and the young recover swiftly, or believe they do.