Your life must now run the course that's been set for it.
Why were there so many barriers between us, always? Barriers of clothing, of etiquette, of time and age and reason.
When you write things down, they sometimes take you places you hadn't planned.
What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.
But oh my dear, I am tired of being Alice in Wonderland. Does it sound ungrateful? It is. Only I do get tired.
I see things beyond what other people see. I am always looking for hidden corners and closets of a life that I feel aren't explored either by the person who lived it or the people writing about it.
There is always so much talk about the sins of the fathers but it is the sins of the mothers that are the most difficult to avoid repeating.
Without question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime. . . He presents a particularly grievous threat because he is so consistently prone to miscalculation. . . And now he is miscalculating America's response to his continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction. . . So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real.
TRYING TO BE POPULAR IN HIGH SCHOOL IS LIKE TRYING TO BE MAYOR OF A CITY THAT WON'T EXIST IN FOUR YEARS.
The White House press corps isn't there at a press briefing. It's not. . . They're not news gatherers there. There really isn't any media.
Most gay men are as sexist in their thinking as are heterosexuals. Their patriarchal thinking leads them to construct paradigms of desirable sexual behaviour that is similar to that of patriarchal straight men.