Creativity Doesn't Flourish In An Atmosphere Of

You Never Forget The People Who Were Kind To You In Childhood, Do You, Sir?

The World Is Full Of People Who Have Lost Faith: Politicians Who Have Lost Faith In Politics, Social Workers Who Have Lost Faith In Social Work, Schoolteachers Who Have Lost Faith In Teaching And, For All I Know, Policemen Who Have Lost Faith In Policing And Poets Who Have Lost Faith In Poetry. It's A Condition Of Faith That It Gets Lost From Time To Time, Or At Least Mislaid.

Charm Is Often Despised But I Can Never See Why. No One Has It Who Isn't Capable Of Genuinely Liking Others, At Least At The Actual Moment Of Meeting And Speaking. Charm Is Always Genuine; It May Be Superficial But It Isn't False.

It Was Reasonable To Struggle, To Suffer, Perhaps Even To Die, For A More Just, A More Compassionate Society, But Not In A World With No Future Where, All To Soon, The Very Words "justice," "compassion," "society," "struggle," "evil," Would Be Unheard Echoes On An Empty Air.

Old Age Makes Caricatures Of Us All.