The writer considers sayability before anything else.
Self-pity dries up our sympathy for others.
To Jane Austen, every fool is a treasure trove.
The psychiatrist's office: the only place I can be sure my story will be treated as sad, but interesting.
Saying "I feel guilty" is a mere form of words. Saying "I feel ashamed" is not.
Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.