Your children vividly remember every unkind thing you ever did to them, plus a few you really didn't.
Acedia is not in every dictionary; just in every heart.
Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun.
Tragedy isn't getting something, or failing to get it; it's losing something you already have.
Suburb: a place that isn't city, isn't country, and isn't tolerable.
The neurotic circles ceaselessly above a fogged-in airport.