Self-absorption intensifies isolation, but permits it to go unnoticed.
To avoid taking responsibility, I become unresponsive but hang on until the other person leaves me.
It is hard to speak of sex without being clinical, brutal, or romantic.
Work at first rescues us, then ravages us.
Mind and body obstruct one another's pleasures.
As a child I was middle-aged and cautious compared to my impulsive father.