“But obviously, we've got to stand with our North Korean allies.”
“We've got to believe in our beautiful impossible blueprints.”
“We've all got our own brand of crazy.”
“We've got to laugh or break our hearts in this damnable world.”
“Sooner or later we've all got to let go of our past.”
“So this is the way we live now: conditioned by the awareness that no North Korean provocation, however egregious, can be confronted, lest it furnish the occasion or pretext for something truly barbarous and insane.”