The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one.

"Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared."

Life seems to be a process of replacing one anxiety with another and substituting one desire for another