Sadness at being caught, at the incontrovertibe knowledge that she will never forgive you.

If you were a nerd computer geek in 1982, the amount of isolation you felt - at least what I experienced, or the kids I knew, the isolation they felt - was almost total. They were not part of society; no one thought they were cool.

It's exactly at these moments, when all hope has vanished, that prayer has dominion.

...and when he thought about the way she laughed, as though she owned the air around her, his heart thundered inside his chest, a lonely rada.

I never wanted to be away from the family. Intuitively, I knew how easily distances could harden and become permanent.

So the kind of boy I was, or that I was told to be, you were kind of this like half-gladiator, half-dude who, you know, was supposed to have as many girls as possible and work until your heart exploded, have no fear, you know.

The people I know who would support [Donald] Trump are keeping their mouths shut.