The psychiatrist's office: the only place I can be sure my story will be treated as sad, but interesting.

Freedom is the moment between sleep and waking before selfhood and the world return.

Realism absorbs the ideal by adding a few small imperfections. Example: it paints a few specks of mud on the white gown of the Lady in the Garden.

Masks are what they seem to be; not so the faces beneath them.

Worried about being a dull fellow? You might develop your talent for being irritating.

I win on my merits; my opponents win by cheating.

Metaphors convince at once or not at all.