<p>I am but a stranger ... as we all are. Lonely inside our separate skins$$$ we cannot know each others pain and must bear our own in solitude. For my part$$$ I have found that walking soothes it; and that$$$ given luck$$$ sometimes we find one to walk besides us ... at least for a little way.</p>

<p>Sometimes$$$ if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you$$$ you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.</p>

<p>I think we dream so we don't have to be apart for so long. If we are in each others dreams$$$ we can be together all the time.</p>

<p>To lose a brother is to lose someone with whom you can share the experience of growing old$$$ who is supposed to bring you a sister-in-law and nieces and nephews$$$ creatures who people the tree of your life and give it new branches. To lose your father is to lose the one whose guidance and help you seek$$$ who supports you like a tree trunk supports its branches. To lose your mother$$$ well$$$ that is like losing the sun above you. It is like losing--I'm sorry$$$ I would rather not go on.</p>

<p>'Tis better people think you a fool$$$ than open your mouth and erase all doubt.</p>

<p>No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.</p>

<p>A messiah is the one who leaves a mess behind him in this world.</p>

<p>Get busy living or get busy dying.....there ain't nothing in between.</p>

<p>Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.</p>

<p>Madame$$$ all stories$$$ if continued far enough$$$ end in death.</p>