"It's practically my subject, my theme: solitude and community; the weirdness and terrors of solitude: the stifling and consolations of community. Also, the consolations of solitude."

"My so-called friends have fallen under a spell: they look me squarely in the eye and say, "Well; all is well."

"Through the pages of Lay Sermons walk the great. I don't say that Margot Asquith actually permits us to rub…"

"I'm proud of the fact that I stood up early and unequivocally in opposition to Bush's foreign policy. That …"

"When we describe what the other person is really like, I suppose we often picture what we want. We look thr…"

"Most average people will allow themselves to become slobs, especially if everyone around them does, too. Th…"

"For some representations of space the brain typically uses egocentric coordinates ... For other behaviors..…"