My mother wanted to shrink from my clinging, but did not.

A restaurant with candles and flowers evokes more reveries than the Isle of Bali does.

Knowledge and power in the city; peace and decency in the country.

The lover as baby is a less troubling idea than the baby as lover.

Curiosity makes loneliness.

The only peace is being out of earshot.

Good deal: justice for you, mercy for me.