I still get up there every night and sing ‘What a Fool Believes’ like my mortgage depends on it. And hell, maybe it does.
“Better not to try anything than to be wicked! — That’s how most people acted, and they were probably right, dying their lumpish lives without collecting more than their share of the general blame; but he’d do whatever he was called to do…”
William T. Vollmann | Butterfly Stories