Consider seriously how quickly people change, and how little trust is to be had in them; and hold fast to God, Who does not change.
You never know people, do you? You can work with 'em for twenty years; you don't know 'em at all.
No one will ever know anyone. We just have to deal with each other. You're not ever gonna know me.
People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
And that point is, it doesn't matter how long you've known somebody. People change. Or you don't really know them as well as you thought you did in the first place.
Human character is just endlessly fascinating, and there is no character who is one thing any more than any one person is just one thing. As you work on a character, he/she is revealed more and more. That's what I continue to love about the work.
People are like almanacs, Bonnie - you never can find the information you're looking for, but the casual reading is well worth the trouble.
