Overheard Starbuck

"Ever so often I see play across your face pictures of the little men that made you what you are today. ... All that running you did in your teens: did you ever stop to notice that you were running towards them, not away from them? What is the Jesuits say about their boys? ... They don't care about your cars, your university degrees, your bigotry, your friends in politics or your antique Santa Claus figurine collection--but they enjoy how much you do--they only care that you've made them flesh and keep them alive. ... Cruelty becomes you ."