Suburb: a place that isn't city, isn't country, and isn't tolerable.
Humiliation is a vast country of imprecise boundaries. If you think you're there, you are. The neurotic rule: when in doubt, go ahead and feel humiliated.
Boredom is often the cause of promiscuity, and always its result.
It must infuriate our children to see us always so much more forbearing with everybody else's.
Whatever we worship, short of God, is sure to be our undoing.
Comfort, or revelation: God owes us one of these, but surely not both.