Keeping Sane Through Books

“ I think of my life as a kind of music, not always good music but still having form and melody. And my life has not been a full orchestra for a long time now. A single note only - and that note unchanging sorrow. I’m not along in my attitude Lee. it seems to me that too many of us conceive of a life as ending in defeat. […] And my life which is ending seems to be going on to an ending wonderful. And my music has a new last melody like a bird song in the night. ” - Samuel in East of Eden (John Steinbeck)