If he has to vote against taxes, he will—and his vote won't change from day to day: “I'm not gonna be a willow in the wind.”

When the hammer impacts the nail, it bends.

He cannot find the fabled boatman, but he does come across the two stone images that belong to the boatman, and in rage and frustration, the great heroic extrovert, the man who is used to acting out whatever he feels inside, smashes the stones.

the Book of Watchers