One Senses, In All Autobiography, A Straining

One Of The Very Important Things That Have To Be Learned Around The Time Dying Becomes A Real Prospect Is To Recognize Those Occasions When We Have Been Useful In The World.

Blame Is Especially Useful In Situations In Which There Is No Apparent Villain-those Moments That Prove, Despite Our Advancement Of Learning, How Susceptible We Are To High Winds And Wet Roads.

If The Sad Truth Be Known, Writers, Being The Misfits We Are, Probably Ought Not To Belong To Families In The First Place. We Simply Are Too Self-interested, Though We May Excuse The Flaw By Calling It 'focused.'

Only By Moving In The Direction You Least Trust Can You Be Saved

Death Is Too Much For Men To Bear, Whereas Women, Who Are Practiced In Bearing The Deaths Of Men Before Their Own And Who Are Alsopracticed In Bearing Life, Take Death Almost In Stride. They Go To Meet Death--that Is, They Attempt Suicide--twice As Often As Men, Though Men Are More "successful" Because They Use Surer Weapons, Like Guns.