I think most observance is really more a way of conceptualizing day-to-day life as what it actually is for many people, a progress of meaningful failures.
Human beings in stressful relationships will frequently behave in ways that contradict or even reverse their own most certain expectations.
Readers of symbols are forever at the mercy of desire.
Relationships are like powerful moods that people share.
There is nothing more seductive — and dangerous — than being listened to.
My insides were ulcerous from coffee and terror.
Choice, with its inevitable invitations to loss, is always such a trial.
Have you ever noticed?--people, no matter how beautiful or desirable, invariably will, if observed closely while going about their daily business of keeping alive, begin to seem like monsters.
We eat pancakes to escape loneliness, yet within moments we want nothing more than our freedom from ever having so much as thought about pancakes.
One of the sad features of most close relationships is the decay of intimacy as a function of time, turmoil, and all the little misunderstandings that inevitably occur between people, leading them, ye...
The problems in describing a person are essentially problems of knowing a person.
Let him hurl these pieces of toast like new and radical ideas that must be cast into the world. Pieces of toast like angry children who will hit us and upset us and change our ways of thinking and fee...
We eat pancakes to escape loneliness, yet within moments we want nothing more than our freedom from ever having so much as thought about pancakes. Nothing can prevent us, after eating pancakes, from f...
They were children of parents who’d acted grotesquely, some might say violently, toward them, even when they were fairly little, and when, in their early thirties, they met and began sharing confidenc...