- You look fine. - Right. I look fine. Except I don't, said Zora, tugging sadly at her man's nightshirt. This was why Kiki had dreaded having girls: she knew she wouldn't be able to protect them from self-disgust.

Step back from your Facebook Wall for a moment: Doesn't it, suddenly, look a little ridiculous? Your life in this format?

You're a library of me.

Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.

I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.

You must live life with the full knowledge that your actions will remain. We are creatures of consequence.

I guess I've always written more from the opposite perspective, that kind of existentialist perspective which argues that existence precedes essence. And there really isn't anything essential in there - you're the product of your actions, which can always change. And they retrospectively make you one way or another.