Are there other people who, when watching a documentary set in a prison, secretly think, as I have, 'Wish I had all that time to read'?

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

13.5 Mrs. Wolfe asks whether Mr. Iqbal expects her Susan to undertake compulsory headstands. 13.6 Mr. Iqbal infers that, considering Susan's academic performance and weight problems, a headstand regime might be desirable.

He traced the genealogy of the feeling.

'A reality shaped around your own desires' - there is something sociopathic in that ambition.

The last page of [Lincoln in the Bardo] - without giving too much away - involves somebody entering somebody else. Not in a sexual way. But it says one of the simplest things you could ever say, which is that we must try and be inside each other. We must have some kind of feeling for each other and enter into each other's experience.

For ridding oneself of faith is like boiling seawater to retrieve the salt--something is gained but something is lost.