Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore - James Baldwin

Though we do not wholly believe it yet, the interior life is a real life, and the intangible dreams of people have a tangible effect on the world.

The occurrence of an event is not the same thing as knowing what it is that one has lived through. Most people had not lived — nor could it, for that matter, be said that they had died — through any of their terrible events. They had simply been stunned by the hammer. They passed their lives thereafter in a kind of limbo of denied and unexamined pain. The great question that faced him this morning was whether or not had had ever, really, been present at his life.

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.