What would a respectful political cartoon look like?

We can best understand the nature of this culture if we say that it found its truest mirror in a corpse.

I have learned the hard way that when you permit anyone else's description of reality to supplant your own ... then you might as well be dead.

But shame is like everything else; live with it for long enough and it becomes part of the furniture.

Maybe unhappiness is the continuum through which a human life moves$$$ and joy just a series of blips$$$ of islands in the stream.

She watched him recede into the past as he stood...each successive moment of him passing before her eyes and being lost forever.

If a birth is the fall-out from the explosion caused by the union of two unstable elements$$$ then perhaps a half-life is all we can expect.

Is birth always a fall?

I always thought storytelling was like juggling: You keep a lot of different tales in the air$$$ and juggle them up and down$$$ and if you're good you don't drop any.

In the end$$$ you write the book that grabs you by the throat and demands to be written.