If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.
You're only good if you can do bad and decide not to.
With imagination, you can put something where nothing was.
Tweet, tweet, you're alive, you ignorant asshole.
I think that's the thing that memoir can do more than anything it does; it testifies and bears witness to the existence of people whose lives, pleasures and virtues would never have been testified to without my having done it. That makes me really glad.
I'm an equal opportunity reader - although I don't much read plays. And since I was raised a Presbyterian, pretty much all pleasures are guilty.