“It is always good to take the always out. It’s not that I want principles to disappear. I think I’d like them written in sand, perhaps in the morning, so they can be seen by the children on their way for a swim. For me, I’d like to keep around the ghost of them. So I’d remember what I was violating when the body and its heart once again insisted on their contrary ways. So I could apologize to those who held them partially, yet held them dear: friends, lovers, the only people we could deeply betray.”
– Principles, from Riffs and Reciprocities
