Desire is life trying to continue to be life. All living things desire, bacteria feel desire. Life is wanting.

A compulsion, a life with a goal, how could you tell the difference?

Happy and angry. Happily angry. Everything, all at once. That's life, boy. You just keep getting fuller, until you burst and Allah takes you and casts your soul into another life later on. And so everything just keeps getting fuller.

So who else did you convince?""Well, I got Joe to potty train himself, and then I convinced Anna to leave the kids at home and go with me on a vacation to Jamaica."Roy laughed heartily. "Dreams are so funny.""Yeah, but bold. So bold. Sometimes I wake up and wonder why I'm not as bold as that all the time. I mean, what have we got to lose?