Public servants selflessly dedicated to destroying as many lives as possible.

Throughout the troubled interlude, he felt a spirit, roughly translated as house wind, at his back.

I am convinced, after years of study, that surfing is the truest model of incarnate existence. Not that I’ve ever surfed, or could explain the justifications for my statement. That would take years.

Hope or expectation, that’s where the trouble begins.

Birds invented music; flowers invented art.

With each creative act he felt a little worse about himself.

The film was an odd amalgam of ridiculously beautiful and just plain ridiculous. In places, I wept. When the credits began to roll, half the audience erupted in laughter.

They were both members of a very exclusive, very unsought club.

TEN REASONS WHY!
1) xxxxx
2) something else
3) # three of ten
4) etc.
5) death
6) something more upbeat
8

It took him so many years to understand how short a year is.