Now we're e-mailing and tweeting and texting so much, a phone call comes as a fresh surprise. I get text messages on my cell phone all day long, and it warbles to alert me that someone has sent me a message on Facebook or a reply or direct message on Twitter, but it rarely ever rings.
This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.
To the dumb question, 'Why me?' the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, 'Why not?'
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenceless people.