BR!GHTEST&BEAST:

Look, I don’t know if I’ll ever have children; I do not control that factor. But if I ever do, I’ll tell them this: you don’t have to be celibate, but if you choose not to be, prepare yourself. You will spend years at a time, courting one person at a time, without any promise of reward, and by the end of it you’ll question everything: your own identity, your worth, your values AND your value, what the government is doing, who your friends are, God and everything. You may be single for decades at a time; by the end of it, you might wish you’d stayed celibate voluntarily instead of involuntarily. There is absolutely no order to these things. You can be good; you can be smart. You might even be the best and brightest. Even your fellow saints and geniuses will reject you. You will do everything right, beyond reproach, and still your traitors will accuse you, just for BEING right as often as you have to be, which is all the time. Yet if you are ready to accept ALL of that, then you will surpass even the monks in dignity, for pain will be your professor.

[({Dm.A.A.)}]