A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
There isn?t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren?t really living without it.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.