American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.

My worst is all out in the open. It makes it necessary for people to tell you about themselves.

I think that it's really important to go away and come back.

Suddenly the staggering love bursts away from me like milk from a smashed glass.

This idea that males are physically aggressive and females are not has distinct drawbacks for both sexes.

We survive until, by sheer stamina, we escape into the dim innocence of our own adulthood and its forgetfulness.

The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone's comfort