“We are House Atreides. There is no call we do not answer. There is no faith that we betray.”

“The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.” —John Steinbeck theparisreview.org/interviews/381…

Sounds of life and movement, people getting ready and people giving up, the sound of hope and the sound of hanging on, and behind them all, the quiet, deadly ticking of a thousand hungry clocks...

"Well, let it pass, he thought; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice." F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Sensible Thing