I Really Wanted To Be A Musician,

As For Writing About Temptation, There's No Drama Without Temptation, And No Novel Without Drama.

She Told Her Therapist It Reminded Her Of Coming Home The Summer After Her Freshman Year At Rutgers, Stepping Back Into The Warm Bath Of Family And Friends, Loving It For A Week Or Two, And Then Feeling Trapped, Dying To Return To School, Missing Her Roommates And Her Cute New Boyfriend, The Classes And The Parties And The Giggly Talks Before Bed, Understanding For The First Time That That Was Her Real Life Now, That This, Despite Everything She'd Ever Loved About It, Was Finished For Good.

Back Then, When Everybody Thought The World Would Last Forever, Nobody Had Time For Anything.

I Think I'm Fascinated By The Power Of Religion In Our Culture. Like A Lot Of Secular, Liberal People, I Ignored It For A Long Time. Lately, Of Course, Just From A Political Perspective, It's Impossible To Ignore.

Maybe That's What We Look For In The People We Love, The Spark Of Unhappiness We Think We Know How To Extinguish.