You can spin stories out of the ways people understand and misunderstand each other.

We know so little about each other. We lie mostly submerged, like ice floes, with our visible social selves projecting only cool and white.

When there are no consequences, being wrong is simply a diversion.

When anything can happen, everything matters.

It's the essence of a degenerating mind periodically, to lose all sense of continuous self, and therefore any regard for what others think of your lack of continuity.

It troubles him to consider the powerful currents and fine-tuning that alter fate, the close and distant influences, the accidents of character and circumstance.

Looking after children is one of the ways of looking after yourself.