I sometimes think novelists write about sex in order to avoid boring themselves to death.

Peace is only better than war when it's not hell too. War being hell makes sense.

Your discovery, as best as I can determine, is that there is an alternative which no one has hit upon. It is that one finding oneself in one of life's critical situations need not after all respond in one of the traditional ways. No. One may simply default. Pass. Do as one pleases, shrug, turn on one's heel and leave. Exit. Why after all need one act humanly?

Why is it that no other species but man gets bored? Under the circumstances in which a man gets bored, a dog goes to sleep.

I sometimes think novelists write about sex in order to avoid boring themselves to death.

A good title should be like a good metaphor. It should intrigue without being too baffling or too obvious.

Children notice things first, people later.