Thursday, January 26, 2006

For men and women
are not only themselves
they are the region in which they were born,
the city apartment in which they learned to walk,
the games they played as children,
the old wives tales they overheard,
the food they ate,
the schools they attended,
the sports they followed,
the poems they read,
and
the God they believed in".


Somerset Maughan,
The Razor's Head.