This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it.
Killing time is the chief end of our society.
I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.
Behind everything we feel, there is always a sense of fear.
It so difficult to know what the people we love really need.
The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.