You Will Find It Easiest To Ride

You Can Tell A Lot About A Civilization By The Quality Of The People Found In Its Jails.

I Had Always Been Fascinated By The Whole Idea That Australia Was This Different Ecology And That When Rabbits And Prickly Pears And Other Things From Europe Were Introduced Into Australia, They Ran Amok.

Something Went Klunk. Like A Nickel Dropping In A Soda Machine. One Of Those Small Insights That Explains Everything. This Was Puberty For These Boys. Adolescence. The First Date, The First Kiss, The First Chance To Hold Hands With Someone Special. Delayed, Postponed, A Decade's Worth Of Longing--while Everybody Around You Celebrates Life, You Pretend, Suppress, Inhibit, Deprive Yourself Of You Own Joy--but Finally Ultimately, Eventually, You Find A Place Where You Can Have A Taste Of Everything Denied.

Only People Who Haven't Lived Through A War Advocate It So Eagerly.

I Have A Very Simple Philosophy Of Life: Kindness. Ferocious, Unrelenting, Ruthless, Committed, Passionate, Kindness. Life Is Sacred Everywhere. We All Have Better Things To Do Than Beat Each Other Up. Arguing For The Exception Is To Invest It With Energy, It's To Negotiate The Loophole. The Commitment To Kindness Must Be Total.