Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.

I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and one is trying to recapture that heightened awareness.

I was lonelier than I should be, for a woman in love, or half in love.

Money talks, but tell me why all it says is just Goodbye.

In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things.

There was I, devouring books and yet allowing a man who had never read a book to walk me home for a bit of harmless fumbling on the front steps.

I'm a tuning fork, tense and twanging all the time.