We Will Often Do Anything To Pretend

Owen Meany Who Rarely Wasted Words And Who Had The Conversation-stopping Habit Of Dropping Remarks Like Coins Into A Deep Pool Of Water... Remarks That Sank, Like Truth, To The Bottom Of The Pool Where They Would Remain Untouchable.

Nothing Moves At The Hotel New Hampshire! We're Screwed Down Here-for Life!

People Are Either Attracted To The Unseemly Or Disapproving Of It, Or Both; Yet We Try To Sound Superior To The Unseemly By Pretending To Be Amused By It Or Indifferent To It.

…there Was No More Safety To Be Found In Love Than There Was To Be Found In A Virus.

This Is What Self-centered Religion Does To Us: It Allows Us To Use It To Further Our Own Ends.