The nature of the world is to be calm, and enhance and support life, and evil is an absence of the inclination of matter to be at peace.

And what new life can emerge from a book. Any book, maybe.

Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life.

The world was floods above and fire below

And that would be my method of locomotion, the Lion concluded. Not diplomas earned, but friendships bungled. Campaigns aborted. Errors in judgment and public humiliations.

Don't fasten on Dorothy. Only unanswerable longing lies down that road. Gone is gone.

We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out.

Woe is the natural end of life, yet we go on having babies.

It’s been a long, rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness.