The world is violent and mercurial--
it will have its way with you.
We are saved only by love--
love for each other
and the love that we pour into the art
we feel compelled to share:
being a parent; being a writer;
being a painter; being a friend.
We live in a perpetually burning building,
and what we must save from it,
all the time,
is love.
Tennessee Williams, in Follies of God by James Grissom
