My Goal In Life Is To Change

In A Great Gasp, Puts Her Head In Her Hands Again And Cries As If Her Throat Were A Cave, As If The Howling Winds Came From Her Belly, She Cries Like A Storm That Will Never End.

Habit Is A Good Thing For The Human Race. ... You Have To Spend So Much Energy Just Getting Through The Day When You Have No Habits That You Don't Have Any Left For Productive Labor.

She Drowned In Words That Could Not Teach Her How To Swim.

For Many People, Morality Means A Set Of Rules Governing The Disposition On One's Genital Organs; Or A Set Of Injunctions Against Lying, Stealing, Or Killing Except When Such Acts Are Sanctioned By Church Or State.

Later, She Would Remember These Years, And Realize With Astonishment That She Had, By Fifteen, Decided On Most Of The Assumptions She Would Carry For The Rest Of Her Life: That People Were Essentially Not Evil, That Perfection Was Death, That Life Was Better Than Order And A Little Chaos Good For The Soul. Most Important, This Life Was All. Unfortunately, She Forgot These Things, And Had To Remember Them The Hard Way.