“And now here we are together, in Chicago, two travelers, one.”

“I can’t be here. We can’t be together now. Too much is at stake.”

“It is wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago”

“He poured the tumbler full. Drink up, he said. The world goes on. We have dancing nightly and this night is no exception. The straight and the winding way are one and now that you are here what do the years count since last we two met together? Men's memories are uncertain and the past that was differs little from the past that was not.”

“How joyful to be together, aloneas when we first were joinedin our little house by the riverlong ago, except that now we knoweach other, as we did not then;and now instead of two stories fumblingto meet, we belong to one storythat the two, joining, made. And nowwe touch each other with the tendernessof mortals, who know themselves”

“We were good together. Not in retrospect, not out of nostalgia. Not in anticipation. But here and now good. Very good.”