We're all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of lonliness. We need each other and we need to get away from each other. We need proximity and distance, conversation and silence. We almost always get more of each than we want at any one time.
If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.
I'm always on the lookout for something good about people. Often months go by.
Death is a distant rumor to the young.
A writer's job is to tell the truth.
I don't think the government is out to get me or help someone else get me but it wouldn't surprise me if they were out to sell me something or help someone else sell me something. I mean, why else would the Census Bureau want to know my telephone number?