We Do Choose How We Shall Live

No One Has Really Ever Defined What A Friend Is.

A Writer Can Get Into A Vast Deal Of Trouble Through Misquotation. If You Ever Want To Receive Lots Of Mail, I Recommend You Get A Shakespeare Quote Wrong In A Magazine Or Newspaper.

I Know How Many Days In Which I Have Just Answered E-mail, Had Three Phone Calls And A Two Hour Lunch. Poof, Gone. They Are Not Infrequent.

All Men And Women Are Born, Live, Suffer And Die; What Distinguishes Us One From Another Is Our Dreams, Whether They Be Dreams About Worldly Or Unworldly Things, And What We Do To Make Them Come About... We Do Not Choose To Be Born. We Do Not Choose Our Parents. We Do Not Choose Our Historical Epoch, The Country Of Our Birth, Or The Immediate Circumstances Of Our Upbringing. We Do Not, Most Of Us, Choose To Die; Nor Do We Choose The Time And Conditions Of Our Death. But Within This Realm Of Choicelessness, We Do Choose How We Live.

What Distinguishes Us One From Another Is Our Dreams, And What We Do To Make Them Come About.