The walls of the world are made of fear.
Reinaldo Arenas
November
For a whole day and a whole night there was absolute silence in the room, not a word issued forth in response to their wailing . . . It seemed more difficult to sympathize with the intentions of a monk than those of a common man.
Mu Xin Halo
October
If the world is going to hell, I’m going there with it—and not in the back row.
Robert McAlmon