Affairs, ... , like everything else, ask too much.

Appealingness is inversely proportional to attainability.

Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews.

I know how to choke. Given even a splinter-thin opportunity to let my side down and destroy my own score, I will seize it. Not only does ice water not run through my veins, but what runs there has a boiling point lower than body temperature.

Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us.

Of nothing but me I sing, lacking another song.

We are most alive when we're in love.