If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.

There's a sort of rage a man feels when he's been deceived where he most trusted. It compares to no other anger.

Your ego-depletion seems problematically difficult to assuage.

a lot of human behavior was really acting out our responses to dangers long past.

Let me be loved like that, by a man who will not replace me with concubines when I'm old and ugly. Let me be loved by a man who loves God more than me.

Maybe she couldn't know who she was today. Maybe it was enough to know that she was no longer who she was before.

Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made various the loathsome people or groups angry, at other times I wonder why I put up with such grief.