What every American should know is that we have more people in jail today than any other country on Earth, more than China. We have some 2. 2 million people in jail. What that means is that a lot of lives are being destroyed.
In this sense love is of a different order to any other phenomenon, for it may be both an event and a sign of that invisible mechanism I spoke of before; perhaps the finest sign, the most certain. In it’s throes we need neither luck nor science. We are the wheel, and the man who profits by it. We are the star, and the darkness it pierces. We are the butterfly, brief and beautiful.