World is supposed to mean something that's self-contained. but nothing is self-contained.

He took pains to avoid self-depreciation, self-mockery, ambiguity, irony, subtlety, vulnerability, a civilized world-weariness and a tragic sense of history--the very things, he says, that are most natural to him.

Insanity's so personal. It's hard to know who shares our secrets.

Human existence had to have a deeper source than our own dank fluids. Dank or rank. There had to be a force behind it, a principal being who was and is and ever shall be.

There's never a dearth of reasons to shoot at the President.

A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it.

Off-camera lives are unverifiable.