Hope's One Thing, Expectation's Quite Another.

You Make A Life Out Of What You Have, Not What You're Missing.

A Way Of Looking At You That Told You She Was Listening, That She Understood All You Were Saying, And All You Weren't.

But In My Humble Opinion, A House Needs A Good Party Once In A While; Remind Folks It Exists.

Wars Make History Seem Deceptively Simple. They Provide Clear Turning Points, Easy Distinctions.: Before And After, Winner And Loser, Right And Wrong. True History, The Past, Is Not Like That. It Isn't Flat Or Linear. It Has No Outline. It Is Slippery, Like Liquid; Infinite And Unknowable, Like Space. And It Is Changeable: Just When You Think You See A Pattern, Perspective Shifts, An Alternate Version Is Proffered, A Long-forgotten Memory Resurfaces.

I'm Good With Words, But Not The Spoken Kind; I've Often Thought What A Marvelous Thing It Would Be If I Could Only Conduct Relationships On Paper.