That Is The Point Of

You Can Flush My Ashes Down The Toilet, For All I Care.

As The Years Go On A Sense Of Deep Patience Comes Over One; One Seems To Know The Virtue Of Ripeness, And The Danger Of Rushing Events.

Thinking About Profound Social Change, Conservatives Always Expect Disaster, While Revolutionaries Confidently Anticipate Utopia. Both Are Wrong.

What Marks A Writer Is This: Until She - Or He, Of Course - Writes Down Whatever Happened, Turns It Into A Story, It Hasn't Really Happened, It Hasn't Shape, Form, Reality.

That Is The Point Of Quotations. One Can Use Another's Words To Be Insulting.