What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security,’ and, ‘What a man is is an arrow into the future and a what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from.

…beating time along the edge of thought.

I think I am mad sometimes.

If only I knew what I wanted I could try to see about getting it.

Perhaps you considered yourself an oracle, Mouthpiece of the dead, or of some god or other. Thirty years now I have labored To dredge the silt from your throat. I am none the wiser.

One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.

A skeptic, I would ask for consistency first of all.