The Idea Is To Get The Pencil

We Have Two Lives, The Life We Learn With And The Life We Live With After That. Suffering Is What Brings Us Toward Happiness.

I Am Somewhat Of A Meliorist. That Is To Say, I Act As An Optimist Because I Find I Cannot Act At All, As A Pessimist. One Often Feels Helpless In The Face Of The Confusion Of These Times, Such A Mass Of Apparently Uncontrollable Events And Experiences To Live Through, Attempt To Understand, And If At All Possible, Give Order To; But One Must Not Withdraw From The Task If He Has Some Small Things To Offer - He Does So At The Risk Of Diminishing His Humanity.

There Is In The Darkness A Unity, If You Will, That Cannot Be Achieved In Any Other Environment, A Blending Of Self With What The Self Perceives, And Exquisite Mystical Experience.

The Whole History Of Baseball Has The Quality Of Mythology.

Prufrock Had Measured Out His Life With Measuring Spoons; Dubin, In Books Resurrecting The Lives Of Others.