We do what we must to survive. But why? Why is survival so all-important? No, I do not have to do what I have little desire to do. I can just die.

The inquiry reveals as much about the inquirer as the response reveals about the respondent.

But so many years have burned away, and so many bad things have happened that never needed to happen, and the bad things will continue to happen.

I don’t believe in everlasting love, unless it can be known only as everlasting pain. I don’t believe in love, but I believe in women who believe in love.