A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age - regardless of how they look on the outside - pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.

Give parents the tiniest of confidences and they'll use them as crowbars to jimmy you open and rearrange your life with no perspective.

...we're told by TV and Reader's Digest that a crisis will trigger massive personal change--and that those big changes will make the pain worthwhile. But from what he could see, big change almost never happens. People simply feel lost. They have no idea what to say or do or feel or think. they become messes and tend to remain messes.

Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.

Is that all time is - our perception of how quickly it does or does not pass?

You can have information or you can have a life, but you can't have both.

Capitalization implies a hierarchy, that some letters are more special than others.