I recognized no obstacle to miraculous change but the incredulity of others. This was an idea that died hard, if it ever really died at all.

And I learned that it's a bad idea to curse if you're in trouble, but a good idea to sing, if you can.

Getting from La Jolla to Alta Vista State Hospital isn't easy, unless you have a car or a breakdown. April's Father had a breakdown and they got him there in no time.

Knowing that everything comes to an end is a gift of experience, a consolation gift for knowing that we ourselves are coming to an end. Before we get it we live in a continuous present, and imagine the future as more of that present. Happiness is endless happiness, innocent of its own sure passing. Pain is endless pain.

We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.

Anybody can be very destructive in that position without at all meaning to be, and I know that I have been inadvertently destructive in the past for certain people on certain occasions.