I will not tolerate your faults. They are of no use to me.

Middle-aged adolescents are a libel on the real thing.

Mistrust makes life difficult. Trust makes it risky.

The popping of bubblegum discourages the most determined lecher.

I am never more myself than in my self-betrayals.

My father was a patriarch inside a matriarchy, but never knew it.

After a moment of shrinking back, we domesticate the grotesque.