Time has a way of blunting the sharpest edge of determination. - Glen Cook

“We all do that. In every day life it’s called making excuses.” True, raw motives are too rough to swallow. By the time most people reach my age, they have glossed their motives so often and so well they fall completely out of touch with them.

I do hope that karma is the keystone of the universe—even if I have to come back as a banana slug myself.

I did not expect them to try anything but I am alive at my age because I make a habit of being ready for trouble when it seems most unlikely.