Well-behaved: he always speaks as if his mother might be listening.

The past is always waiting to entangle and deflect us.

Necessity makes heroes of us all.

Rage is exciting, but leaves me confused and exhausted.

Self-hatred is sometimes appropriate.

The madness of love can always be suspended--to cook dinner or catch a plane, for instance.

I feel that I have something significant to say, but I cannot think what it is.