Reading Civilized The Inner Life.

Great Talkers Are Trying To Fill The Gap Between Themselves And Others, But Only Widen It.

Pain Narrows Consciousness; Pleasure Blurs It.

Spirituality Now Wanders From Sex To Drugs To Art To Revolution To Violence--whatever Seems To Promise Deliverance From The Quotidian.

Between Repetition And Forgetting, It Is A Marvel That A New Thought Ever Struggles Into Existence.

The Villain May Be Good Looking, But His Smile Is Never Quite Right.