The sadness from reading letters that you know you can't help because it's a person who's in extremis and their problems are not soluble by an advice column.

I'm not suffering from some division of personality.

The world's full of victims and the world's full of terrible perpetrators and I want them identified and caught.

The human heart is a mysterious and sometimes dark place.

There are some people who do not have a wild past because being wild would make them terribly self-conscious and uncomfortable.

It's just not right to make an innocent child suffer because of the father's misdeeds.

I spent most of my 20s dating older men, and I really wish I had spent that time dating men my own age who were going through the same experiences I was. I totally understand the appeal of a mature, dashing older man over fellow twenty-somethings who are still figuring things out. And, true, a fling with an older man can be instructive in many ways, and no doubt he finds you attractive.