expectation isn't the same as desire

The story as told in The Odyssey doesn't hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.

I suppose these deadlines we set for ourselves are really a way of saying we appreciate time, and want to use all of it.

You want the truth, of course. You want me to put two and two together. But two and two doesn’t necessarily get you the truth. Two and two equals a voice outside the window. Two and two equals the wind. The living bird is not its labeled bones.

Reading is one of the most individual things that happens. So every reader is going to read a piece in a slightly different way, sometimes a radically different way.

Genres aren't closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time.

Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out.