If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart.

Where do the words go when we have said them?

As human beings, we are always torn between individual freedom and the ability of choose our actions, and the need for at least enough social structure so that anarchy, chaos, and warlordery - or the war of all against all - can be avoided.

I'm from the generation that had the boys' door and the girls' door when you went to school, and you got in big trouble if you went in the wrong one.

Gravity works in your life, the notion of free will works in your life, however problematic it may at times be.

To live in prison is to live without mirrors. To live without mirrors is to live without the self.

All observations of life are harsh, because life is. I lament that fact, but I cannot change it.