“There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures." William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

"Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light unto me." Micah 7:8

"Falling flat, going down, Montag saw or felt or imagined he saw or felt the walls go dark in Millie's face, heard her screaming, because in the millionth part of time that she had left, she saw her own face reflected there, in a mirror instead of a crystal ball, and it was such a wildly empty face, touching nothing, starved and eating of itself, that at last she recognized it as her own and looked quickly up at the ceiling as it and the entire structure of the hotel blasted down upon her, carrying her with a million pounds of brick, metal, plaster, and wood to meet other people in the hives below, all on their quick way to the cellar where the explosion rid itself of them in its own unreasonable way. " Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

"The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death a light has dawned" Isaiah 9:2

At the end of every day I drive through the city of Charleston and I cross the bridge that will take me home. I feel the words building inside me, I can't stop them, or tell you why I say them, but as I reach the top of the bridge these words come to me in a whisper. I say these words as a prayer, as regret, as praise, I say: Lowenstein, Lowenstein. Prince of Tides