I love the slow, warming sensation of my body going numb when I drink.

Topics... are what people talk about when they don't know each other well. Topics... are what men talk about.

Fear kills. Protecting yourself backfires eventually. And living in fear of pain isn't really living at all.

All my life I've wanted to tell people I love them. Fear usually held me back, that they wouldn't care, or they wouldn't hear, or they would take too much from me once they knew.

Imagine me maintaining anybody's equilibrium.

It is one of the truisms of politics that a conservative is often enough a former liberal who has been 'mugged by reality.'