Poise and indifference so often look the same.
That's the way the system works. Sometimes you get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you.
What could smell better than supper being cooked by someone else?
Grade school was perilous. ... I can see how I must have worried them. I was the kind of kid who, for no apparent reason, wept piteously or threw up on myself. On an especially scary day, I sometimes did both.
Kinsey was never a lawyer. She's strictly blue collar.
School was a source of great suffering to me, but once I learned to read, I disappeared into books, where I was a happy visitor to all the worlds that sprang full-blown from the printed page.