“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
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If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.
Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.
There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment the time is always now.
The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide.