I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if read more

I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

Anger manages everything badly.

Anger manages everything badly.

Anger may in time change to gladness; vexation may be succeeded by content. But a kingdom that has once been read more

Anger may in time change to gladness; vexation may be succeeded by content. But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; norcan the dead ever be brought back to life. Hence the enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution. This is the way to keep a country at peace and an army intact.

Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.

Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. -James Thurber.

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. -James Thurber.

I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half-empty. And cracked. And read more

I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half-empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth.

How much more grevious are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. -Marcus Aurelius.

How much more grevious are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. -Marcus Aurelius.

There are two days in the week on which I never worry; One is yesterday and the other is tomorrow.

There are two days in the week on which I never worry; One is yesterday and the other is tomorrow.