The illusion of companionship sits waiting in the television set. We keep our televisions on more than we watch them - an average of more than seven hours a day. For background. For company.

Everytime I say "sure" when I mean "no," everytime I smile brightly when I'm exploding with rage, every time I imagine my man's achievement is my own, I know the cheerleader never really died. I feel her shaking her ass inside me and I hear her breathless, girlish voice mutter "T-E-A-M, Yea, Team.

Between sisters, often, the child's cry never dies down. "Never leave me," it says; "do not abandon me."

for many people, loneliness was an experience of time. 'Not knowing what to do with yourself' was the way it was usually put.

What is haunting is that people fallen off the train threaten those who remain on board.

Humor tells you where the trouble is.

I say you hurt me. You say I scorned you. We say we care. It begins. The conversation begins.