America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization.

Sometimes one word can recall a whole span of life.

Of our hurts$$$ we make monuments of survival. If we survive.

We're in the hands of infinite power and infinite sadism.

I am lonely$$$ yet not everybody will do. I don't know why$$$ some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ''idea of them."

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.

Life is available only in the present moment.

That's what the world is$$$ after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.

Each person feels pain in his own way$$$ each has his own scars.