A Man Should Be Jailed For Telling

One Sits Uncomfortably On A Too Comfortable Cushion.

We Will Not Think Noble Because We Are Not Noble. We Will Not Live In Beautiful Harmony Because There Is No Such Thing In This World, Nor Should There Be. We Promise Only To Do Our Best And To Live Out Our Lives. Dear God, That's All We Can Promise In Truth.

Most People Coming Out Of War Feel Lost And Resentful. What Had Been A Minute-to-minute Confrontation With Yourself, Your Struggle With What Courage You Have Against Discomfort, At The Least, And Death At The Other End, Ties You To The People You Have Known In The War And Makes For A Time Others Seem Alien And Frivolous.

Childhood Is Less Clear To Me Than To Many People: When It Ended I Turned My Face Away From It For No Reason That I Know About, Certainly Without The Usual Reason Of Unhappy Memories. For Many Years That Worried Me, But Then I Discovered That The Tales Of Former Children Are Seldom To Be Trusted. Some People Supply Too Many Past Victories Or Pleasures With Which To Comfort Themselves, And Other People Cling To Pains, Real And Imagined, To Excuse What They Have Become.

Things Start Out As Hopes And End Up As Habits.