Some mysteries bite and barkand come to get you in the dark.

I've been badly scared myself, badly, for quite a few years now. You learn to live with it.

That's life. Something always happens. We don't live in stasis, frozen in amber.

..the most identifying trait of humanity is our ability to be inhumane to one another.

the worst happens when you least expect it

My life has a mysterious purpose that I don't understand, and day by day, conflict by conflict, I learn by going where I have to go.

Three more words. Be happy. Persevere.

...because wherever else the future leads, it leads ultimately to death, the end that is present in my beginning and in yours.

Between birth and burial, we find ourselves in a comedy of mysteries. If you don't think life is mysterious, if you believe you have it all mapped out, you aren't paying attention or you've anesthetized yourself with booze or drugs, or with a comforting ideology.