You were ambitious - for your life, what it was like when you woke up in the morning, and not for some attainment. Like most people who did not answer a particular calling from an early age, you placed work beside yourself; any occupation would fill up your day but not your heart. I liked that about you. I liked it enormously.

Children live in the same world we do. To kid ourselves that we can shelter them from it isn't just naive it's a vanity.

So many stories are determined before they start.

I didn't care about anything. And there's a freedom in apathy, a wild, dizzying liberation on which you can almost get drunk. You can do anything. Ask Kevin.

But indifference would ultimately commend itself as a devastating weapon.

How lucky we are, when we're spared what we think we want!

Expectations are dangerous when they are both too high and unformed.