Funnily enough, it is the subject one dreads talking about at length one ends up talking about at length, often without the slightest provocation.

Sadly, American teenagers are to a weightless vacuum as seat cushions are to polyurethane foam -

Most people ended up, after only a couple of months, so far away from where they'd intended to go, stuck in some barbed underbrush of a quagmire when they'd meant to head straight to the ocean.

...the deepest secrets about ourselves that we, in the ultimate act of humanity, will spare those we truly love.

... suddenly I was a kid in the hall standing outside my locker about to head to Math. But that was how it went sometimes, the English language, when you really needed it, crumbled to clay in your mouth. That's when all the real things were said.

Good bands you can kind of lose, then come back and realize they're still good.

What you tend to find in the personal lives of brilliant men is devastation akin to a nuclear bomb going off.