Serenity Prayer

"The Writer who refuses to explore the darker regions of the heart will never be able to write convincingly about the wonder, the magic and the joy of love for just as goodness cannot be trusted unless it has breathed the same air as evil - the enduring metaphor of Christ crucified between to criminals comes to mind here - so within the fabric of the Love Song, within its melody, its lyric, one must sense an acknowledgement of its capacity for suffering."