We live in a society that blames everybody else for what's wrong.

I am too old for an eyebrow piercing but too young for an eyebrow lift.

I grew up in a military family, and there's something about that military-style uniform, all cleaned up, a brutal control effort the military necessarily breeds.

I wanted to be a painter.

I just don't want anyone messing around with my pure smoking pleasure.

I don't want to wait more than a year and a half or two years between books.

But if I'm going to cause somebody else discomfort by my actions, then I should probably modify my actions toward them to make them as comfortable as possible.