Detroit's a great music town. If your interaction with it was mainly musical, I'm sure you have a good opinion of the place.

But that was in the days when they expected perils to come from without, and nothing made less sense by that time than a survival room buried in a house itself becoming one big coffin.

But what humans forget, cells remember. The body, that elephant

If you talk to geneticists they are constantly finding that your genes are being switched on and off because of the environment. Genes alone do not determine an exact path in your life.

When I think back about my immediate reaction to that redheads girl, it seems to spring from an appreciation of natural beauty. I mean the heart pleasure you get from looking at speckled leaves or the palimpsested bark of plane trees in Provence. There was something richly appealing to her color combination, the ginger snaps floating in the milk-white skin, the golden highlights in the strawberry hair. it was like autumn, looking at her. It was like driving up north to see the colors.

We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the version of the world they really believed in.

no reason to mention my peculiarities, my wandering in the maze these many years, shut away from sight. and from love, too.